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Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of his Department's progress towards its target of increasing prison capacity.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
18 Dec 2025
Answer
23 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of his Department's progress towards its target of increasing prison capacity.

  2. 18 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    This Government inherited a prison system in collapse. We have taken decisive action to put prison capacity on a sustainable footing and end the cycle of repeated crises. We have committed to the largest expansion of the estate since the Victorians, inves...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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