Prisons: Construction
(asked on 2nd June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of how many of the 20,000 additional prison places by 2025 have been built.
This question was answered on 7th June 2023
As of 5 June 2023, 5,202 prison places have been delivered within the 20,000 prison places portfolio, including through two brand-new modern prisons. In addition, we have delivered c.700 temporary places through modular units and have extended the lease at HMP Dartmoor, maintaining 680 places from December 2023.