Question follow-through · 89609
Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been over detained in prison in the last five reported years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 6 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
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been over detained in prison in the last five reported years.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Nov 2025
Answer published
Release inaccuracy is yet another symptom of the prison system crisis inherited by this Government. While the overwhelming majority of offenders are released correctly, we are clamping down on those errors that do occur, and this includes unlawful detenti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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