To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made on delivering 20,000 additional prison places.
So far, c.5,600 additional prison places have been delivered. This includes our two new c.1,700-place prisons: HMP Five Wells, which opened last year; and HMP Fosse Way, which opened in May. It also includes, among others, c.380 Rapid Deployment Cells now...
Prison Accommodation