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date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the Government's policy is to tackle overcrowding in prisons; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	189763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to making prisons places of safety and reform and have ambitious plans to transform our estate, including reducing overcrowding. We are delivering up to 10,000 new prison places across the country, and recently announced that two new prisons would be built at Wellingborough and Glen Parva where all cells in normal accommodation are being designed as single person cells.</p><p> </p><p>Prison governors are responsible for ensuring the level of operational capacity is set to reflect the provision of safe and decent accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/11/2018 15:30:45 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1003769

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department maintains a record of research it has commissioned.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	189764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justices Analytical Services Directorate currently maintains a central record of its externally commissioned social research but not of the internal social research which is conducted as part of its’ day to day analytical functions. Some of the Ministry of Justice’s agencies and public bodies will also independently externally commission social research but a central record of this work is not maintained. The Ministry of Justice also commissions external research which is not social research but does not maintain central records of this research.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/11/2018 10:45:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 85790 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon