Question follow-through · 62456
HMP/YOI Downview
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males were held in HMP Downview on 1 June 2025.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males were held in HMP Downview on 1 June 2025.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2025
Answer published
The general female estate comprises the establishments in which female prisoners are accommodated. E Wing at HMP/YOI Downview is a special unit: it is not part of the general women's estate. Prisoners on E Wing are located separately from all other prison...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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HMP/YOI Downview: Transgender People
30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has reviewed the validity of its insurance policies for HMP Downview, in the context of the imprisonment of biological males at that prison.
HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence
30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on staff by prisoners have taken place at (a) HMP Downview and (b) HMP High Down in Banstead in the last 12 months.
HMP/YOI Downview: Transgender People
30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males are held in HMP Downview.
HMP/YOI Downview
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62457 on HMP/YOI Downview, how many of the seven males held on E Wing have access to the general women's estate for (a) work and (b) other services.
Suicide: Children
17 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing inquests into cases of child death by suicide to sit in private.
HMP/YOI Downview: Men
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males have been placed in E Wing of HMP Downview since 4 July 2024.
HMP/YOI Downview: Men
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males were held in HMP Downview as of 1 August 2025.
HMP/YOI Downview: Men
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63903 on HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence, how many of the prisoner on prisoner assaults recorded in 2024 at HMP Downview were committed by
HMP/YOI Downview: Men
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63903 on HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence, how many of the prisoner on prisoner assaults recorded in 2023 at HMP Downview were committed by
HMP/YOI Downview: Finance
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 62457 on HMP/YOI Downview, whether funding of E Wing at HMP Downview comes out of the (a) women's and (b) men's estate budget.
HMP/YOI Downview: Costs
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual cost to the public purse is of housing a prisoner in (a) E Wing of HMP Downview and (b) the general women's estate within HMP Downview.
HMP/YOI Downview
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62454 on HMP/YOI Downview, whether E Wing at HMP Downview is part of the women's estate.