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HMP Manchester and HMP Pentonville: Domestic Visits

Asked by Robert JenrickReform UKMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 11 November 2025UIN 87746

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what visits he has conducted to (a) HMP Pentonville and (b) HMP Manchester since he became Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor.

Answered by Jake Richards

Since his appointment in September, HMP Pentonville and HMP Manchester are not prisons the Secretary of State for Justice has visited although he has been to HMP Belmarsh and HMP Gartree. Ministers visit prisons regularly and in recent months this has included both HMP Manchester and HMP Pentonville.

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