Question follow-through · 99075
Prisoners: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his department will provide the average number of visitation days, per prisoner, for a) all prisoners and b) disabled prisoners.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his department will provide the average number of visitation days, per prisoner, for a) all prisoners and b) disabled prisoners.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.However, a report about Social Contact in Prison published 11 December provides information about visit frequencies. The report notes that in the 12 months prior to June 2024, almost two thi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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