Question follow-through · 12837
Prisoners: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have successfully sued the Ministry of Justice and HMPPS over breaches of the Public Sector Equality Duty in the past year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jun 2026 · 5 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
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have successfully sued the Ministry of Justice and HMPPS over breaches of the Public Sector Equality Duty in the past year.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jun 2026
Answer published
It is rare for Public Sector Equality Duty claims to be litigated in isolation: they tend to be submitted as part of a wider claim. Litigation databases record whether a claim has an equality dimension, rather than specific information relating to the Pub...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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