| Heading: |
Prison Accommodation |
| Question ID: |
1782581 |
| UIN: |
36624 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3969 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Damian Hinds
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Damian Hinds
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number of prison places added, (b) number of prison places removed and (c) net change in the number of prison places was in each year from the earliest year for which data are available. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-25 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
As previously set out in an ad-hoc release in October 2024, the previous Government only managed to increase prison capacity by c.500 places between May 2010 and April 2024.As we have also previously published, the previous Labour Government added nearly ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |