{"value":{"id":1850752,"askingMemberId":5089,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-11-11T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-11-13T00:00:00","uin":"89774","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new prisons have been (a) planned and (b) approved since 5 July 2024.","answeringBodyId":54,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Justice","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":5082,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-11-20T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>As set out in the December 2024 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy, we are committed to delivering an additional 14,000 prison places and aim to do so by 2031; we have already delivered c.2,600 of these since taking office.</p><p>No new prisons have been (a) planned or (b) approved since 5 July 2024.</p><p>However, since 5 July 2024, the delivery of c.1,080 places have been approved through the Small Secure Houseblocks programme at the following sites:</p><ul><li><p>HMP Northumberland</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>HMP Lancaster Farms</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>HMP Humber</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>HMP Ranby</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>HMP Onley</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>HMP Erlestoke</p></li></ul><p>We have also uplifted the Accelerated Houseblock Delivery Programme by c.125 places at HMP Wayland.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Prisons: Construction","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1850752","method":"GET"}]}