Appearances and Speeches

The Ministry of Justice does not project the size of the prison population to 2030 and 2040.

I am grateful to the hon.

May I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my predecessor as prisons and probation Minister, my right hon.

I am pleased to say that the proportion of prison leavers in employment six months after their release has more than doubled in the two year

We work closely with education providers to drive up standards of teaching and improve academic outcomes.

The National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) are a specialist resource that provide intervention options to the Silver and Gold commanders.

In the period from 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023, there were 4,911 band 3-5 prison officers who joined HM Prison and Probation Service

We are not the first country to face acute pressures in prison capacity.

Renting prison spaces overseas has the potential to augment existing prison capacity and provide us with the prison spaces we need to manage

We are investing £4 billion in the biggest prison building programme since the Victorian era, including 6 new prisons – creating 20,000 new