A question on #PrisonAccommodation tabled by Damian Hinds on 10-03-2025 has been answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin.

Heading: Prison Accommodation
Question ID: 1782582
UIN: 36625
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-03-10
Asking Member ID: 3969
Asking Member display name: Damian Hinds
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Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the number of prison places added through (a) prisons opening, (b) small secure houseblocks, (c) rapid deployment cells, (d) crowding places and (e) other additions was in each year from the earliest year fo
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Date answered: 2025-03-25
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Answering Member ID: 4056
Answering Member display name: Sir Nicholas Dakin
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Answering Member Twitter reference: Sir Nicholas Dakin
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Answer text: As outlined in the recently published 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy, this Government is committed to delivering an additional 14,000 prison places through the 20,000 prison place programmes, which the previous Government failed to deliver.We are aiming...
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Answering body ID: 54
Answering body name: Ministry of Justice
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