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<p>The below table provides a summary of the number of prison places that have opened
in each year since 2019. This includes places delivered as part of the 20,000 places
portfolio, including two new c.1,700 place prisons and new prison places delivered
through houseblocks and Rapid Deployment Cells (RDCs)</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Places
opened</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>508</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>1,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2,176</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>2,459</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,413</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>For simplicity, all places relating to a prison opening are included in the
year that the prison opened. In practice, a new prison may take more than a year before
reaching its final operational capacity.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to push ahead with
the largest prison expansion programme since the Victorian era – with 10,000 of the
pledged 20,000 additional places on track to be delivered by the end of 2025. This
will include our third new prison, HMP Millsike, delivering c.1,500 places, new houseblocks
at HMP Stocken and Rye Hill, as well as hundreds more RDCs.</p>
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