United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 4608
Prisons: Overcrowding
Original
Introduced
29 May 2026
Last action
8 June 2026 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
8 June 2026
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment has been made of trends in the level of prison overcrowding.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
29 May 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment has been made of trends in the level of prison overcrowding.
Source: Commons
8 June 2026
Answer
Crowding data is published regularly in HMPPS’s Annual Digest, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2024-to-march-2025.The most recent data for the 12 months ending March 2025 shows:The crowding rate in prison...
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Ministry of Justice · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-05-29/4608
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1909686
- uk · wq-1909686 · source updated 8 June 2026