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Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment has been made of trends in the level of prison overcrowding.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
29 May 2026
Target answer date
2 Jun 2026
Answer
8 Jun 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment has been made of trends in the level of prison overcrowding.

  2. 2 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Crowding data is published regularly in HMPPS’s Annual Digest, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2024-to-march-2025.The most recent data for the 12 months ending March 2025 shows:The crowding rate in prison...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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