Prison Accommodation

(asked on 23rd June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made in creating new prison places.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 1st July 2022

We have already delivered over 3,100 additional prison places through a combination of refurbishments, installing temporary accommodation, repurposing the Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre back into a prison and the opening of HMP Five Wells earlier this year.

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