Prisoners' Release: Temporary Accommodation
(asked on 9th October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her oral contribution on 10 September 2024, Official Report, column 690, whether probation directors have contracted hotel accommodation for prisoners released under the SDS40 scheme since 10 September 2024.
This question was answered on 18th October 2024
Data on SDS40 releases forms a subset of data intended for future publication.
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice confirmed to the House on 10 September that Probation Directors could arrange for the temporary use of hotels, where required, and I can confirm that in a small number of cases hotels have been used.