| Heading: |
Prison Accommodation |
| Question ID: |
1787670 |
| UIN: |
40505 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4595 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Gareth Snell
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Gareth Snell
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the document entitled The number of prison places built and closed (2010-2024), published on 25 October 2024, if she will publish the number of prison places lost as a result of (a) prison closu |
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true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
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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 Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
As set out in the quoted document in October 2024, the previous Government only managed to increase prison capacity by c.500 places between May 2010 and April 2024. A regional breakdown of the number of prison places removed during this period has been pr... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |