Prison Accommodation
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the gap between projected prison demand and planned prison capacity.
Answered by Jake Richards
On 29 January 2026, we published our second annual statement on prison capacity, which sets out the projected prison demand and planned prison capacity up to November 2032: Ministry of Justice – Annual Statement on Prison Capacity: 2025.
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