United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 182016
Prisons: Overcrowding
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16 April 2021
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21 April 2021 · Answer
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21 April 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to (a) tackle overcrowding in prisons and (b) adopt alternative methods to incarceration for low level offenders.
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16 April 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to (a) tackle overcrowding in prisons and (b) adopt alternative methods to incarceration for low level offenders.
Source: Commons
21 April 2021
Answer
Overcrowding in prisons In November 2020, this Government announced that it would commit over £4 billion capital funding to make significant progress in delivering 18,000 additional prison places across England and Wales by the mid-2020s. This includes cr...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-04-16/182016
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1309864
- uk · wq-1309864 · source updated 21 April 2021