Prison Accommodation
(asked on 5th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new prison places have been approved since 5 July 2024.
This question was answered on 17th November 2025
Between 5 July 2024 and 7 November 2025, HM Treasury has approved the Full Business Cases for the delivery of c.1,200 new prison places.
These places are part of the 14,000 additional places this Government committed to delivering in the December 2024 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy. We are currently on track to deliver these by 2031, with the expectation they will be operational by 2032. Under this Government, c.2,600 places have already been delivered.