Question follow-through · 10853
Prisoners' Release: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were in settled accommodation within three months of their release in each year since 2021.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were in settled accommodation within three months of their release in each year since 2021.
24 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2026
Answer published
The information requested is published as part of the Offender Accommodation Outcome Statistics series. The most recent release was published on 31 July 2025 and covered the period to March 2025. The series can be accessed via the following link: https://...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Immigration: Appeals
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Muslim Brotherhood: Prisoners
22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of the Muslim Brotherhood are held in prisons in England and Wales.
HMP Belmarsh and HMP Manchester: Prisoners
22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners held at HMP Belmarsh or HMP Manchester have sued the Ministry of Justice or HMPPS over alleged breaches of the Public Sector Equality Duty in the past year.
Ministry of Justice: Artificial Intelligence
22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on the open-source AI model Qwen in the past two years.
Legal Systems: Islam
22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there are sharia councils in (a) England and (b) Wales.
Legal Systems: Islam
23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds data on how many people used sharia councils or tribunals in England and Wales in the past year.
Prisoners: Transgender People
23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the removal of transgender prisoners from women's prisons.
Prisoners: Mobile Phones
23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been convicted of possessing, without authority, a mobile phone inside a prison in the past year.
Prison Officers: Vetting
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HMP Winchester
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