| Heading: |
Prisons: Overcrowding |
| Question ID: |
1791129 |
| UIN: |
43038 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-01 |
| 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 proportion of capacity made available through Operation Safeguard was used between its inception and July 2024. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-09 |
| 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 Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
Operation Safeguard is an important contingency measure used to ensure that the current demand on prison places does not cause undue disruption to Criminal Justice System partners. The first places were activated by the previous Government in February 202... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |