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Question follow-through · 65526

HMP/YOI Downview

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.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
9 Jul 2025
Answer
15 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 9 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    As noted in the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62457, prisoners on E Wing are located separately from all other prisoners at HMP/YOI Downview. Supervised access to activities in the main prison’s regime, including work, is provided only where a local r...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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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.

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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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Prisoner Escapes

15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions in the last 24 months have prisoners at HMP Downview left the secure perimeter without formal authorisation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Prisoner Escapes

15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will take steps to review systems of prisoner management in place at HMP Downview in the context of the security breach involving an unauthorised prisoner departure in October 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Prisoner Escapes

15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of whether HMP Downview is capable of effectively keeping the female prisoners safe from the biological male prisoners sharing the same facilities and services, in the cont

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Prisoner Escapes

15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the security breach in October 2025 involving an unauthorised prisoner departure at HMP Downview involved a prisoner housed in the prison’s E Wing.