Prison Service: Finance

(asked on 20th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether additional funding will be provided from the public purse to prisons to help them with the rise in prisoner numbers since May 2017.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 30th October 2017

Prison numbers can fluctuate, which is why we have a robust set of plans in place to ensure we will always have enough prison places available for those sent to us by the court. As we set out in the Prison Safety and Reform white paper published in November 2016 we are committed to transforming the prison estate (in England Wales) by investing £1.3bn to deliver up to 10,000 new places. This includes pushing ahead with our commitment to close or redevelop older prisons and open new accommodation in this parliament. An additional £100 million per year was also made available to address safety and stability issues in prisons and fund the recruitment of 2,500 additional prison officers.

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