| Heading: |
Prison Accommodation |
| Question ID: |
1791126 |
| UIN: |
43035 |
| 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 the gross number of prison places added to the prison estate in England and Wales through new builds and extensions to prisons was between (a) 1997 and 2010 and (b) 2010 and 2024. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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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 handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
The previous Labour Government added nearly 28,000 places to the prison estate between 1997 and 2010. However, available records do not provide a breakdown for these figures of these places by category. The annual breakdown of this net change has been pro... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |