questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number of prison places added, (b) number of prison places removed and (c) net change in the number of prison places was in each year from the earliest year for which data are available.
answerText: As previously set out in an ad-hoc release in October 2024, the previous Government only managed to increase prison capacity by c.500 places between May 2010 and April 2024.As we have also previously published, the previous Labour Government added nearly ...
heading: Prison Accommodation