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Written Question
Prison Accommodation
Wednesday 27th March 2024

Asked by: Louie French (Conservative - Old Bexley and Sidcup)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to increase prison capacity.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The Government is currently delivering 10,000 new prison places by the end of 2025 and have a long-term commitment to build 20,00 places overall, which is the largest prison building programme in Britain since the Victorian era. We have already delivered c.5,900 of these, including through our two brand new modern and secure prisons. A third prison will open next year, and two more have planning permission; as a result, the total number of prison places is significantly higher than in 2010 and will rise further.

Meanwhile, with a new prisoner transfer agreement with Albania and expansion of the Early Removal Scheme, strong and decisive action is being taken to drive down the number of Foreign National Offenders in our prisons.


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Rural Payments Agency

Mar. 26 2024

Source Page: UK tariff rate quotas 2024
Document: UK tariff rate quotas 2024 (webpage)

Found: 4,159,000 Apr 4,159,000 0 NA 0 4,159,000 Order number: 05.4324 - FTA Country of origin: Albania


Select Committee
Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, Prime Minister

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Committee: Liaison Committee (Commons)

Found: come here illegally back to a different country, we see the arrivals drop, as they have done from Albania


Written Question
Prisons: Overcrowding
Tuesday 26th March 2024

Asked by: Marquess of Lothian (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of, and what action they are taking to reduce, overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales.

Answered by Lord Bellamy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

In prisons where we have crowding in place, a rigorous cell certification process is undertaken that ensures the use of cells is subject to formal assessment of safety and decency.

We continue to pursue the package of longer-term measures the Lord Chancellor announced on 16 October 2023 to reform the justice system and continue to address the prison capacity challenges. The measures include: the extension of the Early Removal Scheme, introducing a presumption to suspend sentences of 12 months or less, curtailing the licence period for IPP sentences and extending the use of Home Detention Curfew. On 11 March, the Lord Chancellor announced the next steps in our plan, to allow us to go further and faster in removing foreign national offenders (FNOs). This includes expediting prisoner transfers with our priority partners such as Albania, and the creation of a new taskforce across the Home Office and Ministry of Justice to change the way we process FNO cases radically.

To meet pressing demand, we are building c.20,000 modern, rehabilitative prison places – the biggest prison build programme since the Victorian era. We have already delivered c.5,900 of these, including through our two new 1,700 places prisons, HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way, and c.590 Rapid Deployment Cells across 11 sites. By the end of 2025, we are on track to have delivered around 10,000 places in total.

The Government will continue to monitor the evolving situation with demand for prison places carefully, so that we can make sure we have the right approaches in place to maintain the capacity required for a safe and effective criminal justice system.


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Home Office

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: International social media campaign launched to stop the boats
Document: International social media campaign launched to stop the boats (webpage)

Found: launched a new campaign that will be rolled out in Vietnam, following successful social media activity in Albania


Lords Chamber
Asylum Claims - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sahota (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, India was recently designated a safe country, along with Georgia, Albania and other countries - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: UK and others invoke Vienna Mechanism on political prisoners in Russia: Joint Statement to the OSCE
Document: UK and others invoke Vienna Mechanism on political prisoners in Russia: Joint Statement to the OSCE (webpage)

Found: delivering this statement on behalf of the Nordic-Baltic countries and the following aligning states: Albania


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Marteilia refringens
Document: World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Aquatic Manual chapter Marteilia refringens (PDF)

Found: Geographical distribution Reported in Albania, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 20 2024

Source Page: UN Human Rights Council 55: Joint Statement on Sudan Humanitarian Access
Document: UN Human Rights Council 55: Joint Statement on Sudan Humanitarian Access (webpage)

Found: on behalf of: United Kingdom Norway United States of America Germany Liechtenstein Belgium Austria Albania


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Business and Trade

Mar. 20 2024

Source Page: Security and Policing 2024
Document: Security and Policing 2024 (webpage)

Found: Countries annotated with ‘*’ attended the exhibition: Albania Algeria* Argentina Australia