Question follow-through · 110303
Prisons: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Government action to avert summer prison disaster, published on 29 January 2026, when the 2,900 prison spaces began construction.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 2 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Government action to avert summer prison disaster, published on 29 January 2026, when the 2,900 prison spaces began construction.
4 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2026
Answer published
This Government has delivered c.2,900 additional prison places and construction on these began between 2022 and 2024. We have invested £4.7 billion over the spending review period to enable the delivery of these additional prison places at pace and have m...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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