Question follow-through · 15039

Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how he plans to reduce his capital budget in order to fund the Defence Investment Plan; and whether these reductions will impact prison expansion or construction.

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 1 Jul 2026
Target answer date: 6 Jul 2026
Answer: 16 Jul 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how he plans to reduce his capital budget in order to fund the Defence Investment Plan; and whether these reductions will impact prison expansion or construction.
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2026
Answer published
Departments have been asked to contribute 1p in every £1 of their capital budgets to fund this Government’s Defence Investment Plan, helping keep the country safe in an increasingly volatile world. The Ministry of Justice will set out further impacts on s...

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