Ministry of Justice written question – answered on 11 January 2023.
Steve Reed
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many operational prison cells were there in each year since 2010.
Damian Hinds
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice
The operational capacity of the prison estate is best understood by the number of places rather than number of cells, and this is how data is recorded by HMPPS. A table showing the total useable operational capacity of the prison system as at the end of January since 2007 has been provided below.
Year | January |
2007 | 80375 |
2008 | 80778 |
2009 | 84902 |
2010 | 86313 |
2011 | 88009 |
2012 | 89399 |
2013 | 90105 |
2014 | 85657 |
2015 | 88286 |
2016 | 87969 |
2017 | 86595 |
2018 | 86749 |
2019 | 85079 |
2020 | 85049 |
2021 | 81072 |
2022 | 81292 |
6th Jan 2023 | 84431 |
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