United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 155311
Women's Prisons
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19 February 2021
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1 March 2021 · Answer
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1 March 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the Departmental modelling that led to the announcement of up to 500 new prison cells in women’s prisons; and what assessment his Department has made of the effect of those new cells on (a) wom
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19 February 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the Departmental modelling that led to the announcement of up to 500 new prison cells in women’s prisons; and what assessment his Department has made of the effect of those new cells on (a) wom
Source: Commons
1 March 2021
Answer
Our prison population projections, published in November last year, show that the female prison population is projected to rise by around two-fifths by 2026 (1,300 women), with most of that rise coming in the next two years. Our projections took in to con...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-02-19/155311
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1287024
- uk · wq-1287024 · source updated 1 March 2021