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UIN 48916

Prisons: Overcrowding

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29 April 2025

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8 May 2025 · Answer

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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of overcrowding in prisons.

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  1. 29 April 2025

    Written question

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of overcrowding in prisons.

    Source: Commons

  2. 8 May 2025

    Answer

    This Government inherited a prisons system in crisis and took immediate action to ensure it did not collapse. However, SDS40 was not a long term solution and we are once again at over 99% capacity. Recently, we only had 732 places left across the whole of...

    Source: Written answer

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