Question follow-through · 3674

Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners in custody serving standard determinate sentences, both in total, and broken down by offence, on the latest date on which the data is available.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 20 May 2026
Target answer date: 1 Jun 2026
Answer: 1 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners in custody serving standard determinate sentences, both in total, and broken down by offence, on the latest date on which the data is available.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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1 Jun 2026
Answer published
Data on prisoners serving determinate and indeterminate sentences are published regularly in the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly, which includes information on offenders by main custody type and offence group: https://www.gov.uk/government/collec...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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