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Seventy-Eighth Report - Resettlement support for prison leavers
Public Accounts Committee
HC 1329
Published 11 November 2023
Recommendations
25
Deferred
MoJ's prison capacity expansion plans face significant funding and inflationary challenges.
Recommendation
MoJ told us it has multiple options to increase prison capacity, including building new prisons and refurbishing the existing estate. MoJ told us it plans to increase prisoner capacity by 20,000 places at a cost of £3.8 billion, but it …
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Government Response Summary
The government accepted the recommendation in principle and committed to responding to the Committee by May 2024 with projections for prison population, new prisons, and resettlement demand. They will also publish a new independently scrutinised annual statement on prison capacity, future demand, and build pipeline.
HM Treasury
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27
Deferred
Probation Service faces significant increase in demand for resettlement services
Recommendation
As these additional prisoners progress through their sentences, there will be higher demand for resettlement services. MoJ’s central estimate in its recent modelling work on forecast volumes of prison leavers starting their supervision in the community shows that, while projections …
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Government Response Summary
The government agrees and will respond to the Committee by May 2024 with projections for the prison population and demand for resettlement services. They will also publish a new annual statement on prison capacity and update on prison build, and HMPPS will provide further information after the annual statement is published, additionally committing to 'consider' the demand for resettlement services alongside the NAO's recommendation for a long-term strategy.
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