Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of prison places made available in the adult male estate as a result of the prisoner early release scheme.

The modelled estimates for the number of prison places made available in the adult male estate as a result of this change were published in the Impact Assessment for the Statutory Instrument to Amend the Standard Determinate Sentence Automatic Release Point.

This can be found at: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2024/117/pdfs/ukia_20240117_en.pdf. Further statistics will be published in due course.