Prisons: Dogs

(asked on 14th June 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of dogs used across HM Prison and Probation Service in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
This question was answered on 19th June 2023

The attached table represents approximate HMPPS dog numbers by year;

Approximate HMPPS dogs by year

2010

550

2011

550

2012

553

2013

553

2014

524

2015

524

2016

524

2017

524

2018

610

2019

721

2020

721

2021

721

2022

721

2023

891

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