Prison Accommodation

(asked on 1st September 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Criminals to face football, travel, club and pub bans, published on 23 August 2025, which prisons are the 2,400 new prison places since July 2024 located in.


Answered by
Sarah Sackman Portrait
Sarah Sackman
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 9th September 2025

We are committed to continuing the prison build programmes, aiming to deliver 14,000 places by 2031. Between July 2024 and 23 August 2025, places were delivered at the following sites:

Site

Places

HMP Millsike

1,468

HMP Rye Hill

458

HMP Stocken

214

HMP Sudbury

120

HMP Cookham Wood

70

HMP Fosse Way

54

HMP Holme House

21

Total

2,405

We have also delivered an additional 64 places at other sites through refurbishments of individual cells.

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