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Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has undertaken any modelling on the projected adult prison population for each month from August 2026 to February 2028 under scenarios in which (a) the Sentencing Act 2026 is implemented as

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
1 Sept 2026
Target answer date
4 Sept 2026
Answer
4 Sept 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has undertaken any modelling on the projected adult prison population for each month from August 2026 to February 2028 under scenarios in which (a) the Sentencing Act 2026 is implemented as

  2. 4 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    This Government inherited a prisons system days from collapse. We had no choice but to take decisive action to stop our prisons overflowing and keep the public safe.Our landmark Sentencing Act 2026 will deliver a more sustainable solution to the prison ca...

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ministry of Justice: USA

2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide the itinerary for the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sentencing, Human Rights and Technology's trip to the USA in July 2026, including the organisations visited and topics discussed

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Young Offenders: Crime Prevention

2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to adopt the policies in the Cutting Youth Crime, Saving Young Lives white paper.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Members: Correspondence

2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to respond to the letters from the hon. Member for West Suffolk of 21 July, 23 July, 4 August and 25 August 2026.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisons: Crimes of Violence

2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in the last three years, how many assaults on (a) prison officers and (b) prisoners, were committed by prisoners on Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Barristers: Training

2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the press release by the Ministry of Justice entitled Millions to be invested in next generation of legal talent, published on 2 September 2026, what steps will chambers be expected to take to i

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners' Transfers: Personal Property

3 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the number of items of prisoner property that were lost in the course of transfers between prisons, and (b) how many prisoners have been affected by this, broken down

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ministry of Justice: Freedom of Information

3 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Freedom of Information requests his Department has, in the past 12 months, provided a response to within a) 0-19, b) exactly 20, c) 20-39, d) 40, e) 41 or more working days of the request's receipt.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ministry of Justice: Freedom of Information

3 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Freedom of Information requests to which his Department has not yet provided a substantive answer were received a) 0-19, b) 20, c) 20-39, d) 40, e) 41 or more working days ago.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisons: Islam

3 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will launch an investigation into forced conversion to Islam in prisons.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Criminal Justice Board

3 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the Criminal Justice Board has not met since December 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners: Personal Names

3 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have changed their names while serving a prison sentence in the past three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners: Sexual Offences

3 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners held on Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences have been convicted of sexual offences.