Section 21 Sentencing Act 2026

Section 21 of the Sentencing Act 2026 is about Annual report relating to prison capacity. It provides as follows:

(1)The Secretary of State must, for each year, prepare and lay before Parliament a report relating to prison capacity.

(2)The report for a year—

(a)must include information about—

(i)the number of people in prison and the number of prison places on a particular date or dates in that year, and

(ii)projected changes in the number of people in prison and the number of prison places, and

(b)may include any other information that the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

(3)The Secretary of State must publish the report after it has been laid before Parliament.

(4)“Prison” does not include a naval, military or air force prison.

(5)In the Prison Act 1952—

(a)omit section 5 (annual report on prisons);

(b)in section 43 (places for the detention of young offenders), in the table in subsection (4), in the second column for the entry for “secure training centres or secure colleges” omit “5,”.

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