questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment has been made of trends in the level of prison overcrowding.
answerText: 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...
heading: Prisons: Overcrowding