United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 43036
Prison Accommodation: Closures
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1 April 2025
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9 April 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the gross number of prison places removed from the prison estate in England and Wales through permanent closures of whole (a) prisons and (b) wings was between (i) 1997 to 2010 and (ii) 2010 to 2024.
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1 April 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the gross number of prison places removed from the prison estate in England and Wales through permanent closures of whole (a) prisons and (b) wings was between (i) 1997 to 2010 and (ii) 2010 to 2024.
Source: Commons
9 April 2025
Answer
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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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-04-01/43036
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1791127
- uk · wq-1791127 · source updated 9 April 2025