Question follow-through · 87519
Prisons: Leisure
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish (a) all recreational activities provided to inmates and (b) the total cost to the public purse for providing those activities in (i) HMP Maidstone, (ii) HMP Huntercombe and (iii) HMP Morton Hal
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 3 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish (a) all recreational activities provided to inmates and (b) the total cost to the public purse for providing those activities in (i) HMP Maidstone, (ii) HMP Huntercombe and (iii) HMP Morton Hal
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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11 Nov 2025
Answer published
The requested data is not held centrally and could not be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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