Prison Accommodation
(asked on 2nd September 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison places defined as in-use certified normal accommodation there were on 30 June of each year since 2010; and how many of those places were in (a) public and (b) private prisons.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) publishes monthly individual prison population and capacity information through the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-population-statistics
The table below identifies the in-use certified normal accommodation (CNA) on the 30 June in each year since 2010 and how many of these places were provided in public and private prisons.
Year | CNA in privately managed prisons | CNA in public sector prisons | Total in-use CNA |
25/06/2010 | 8,406 | 68,617 | 77,023 |
24/06/2011 | 8,805 | 67,942 | 76,747 |
29/06/2012 | 12,188 | 66,394 | 78,582 |
28/06/2013 | 13,464 | 63,362 | 76,826 |
27/06/2014 | 13,144 | 61,910 | 75,054 |
26/06/2015 | 13,864 | 61,993 | 75,857 |
24/06/2016 | 14,094 | 61,763 | 75,857 |
30/06/2017 | 14,148 | 60,916 | 75,064 |
29/06/2018 | 13,996 | 61,471 | 75,467 |
28/06/2019 | 13,798 | 60,915 | 74,713 |
CNA, or uncrowded capacity, is the Prison Service’s own measure of accommodation. CNA represents the good, decent standard of accommodation that the Service aspires to provide all prisoners. Where the operational capacity of a prison is higher than the CNA, prisoners may be held in ‘crowded’ conditions, with more prisoners accommodated in individual cells than they were designed for. In the financial year 2018/19, 22.5% of the prison population was being held in crowded conditions, down from 24.2% in the previous year.