Question follow-through · 73335
Prisoner Escorts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department imposes fines on private prisoner escort contractors for delays in journeys longer than 100 miles.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department imposes fines on private prisoner escort contractors for delays in journeys longer than 100 miles.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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4 Sept 2025
Answer published
Financial penalties, known as “service credits,” are applied to Prisoner Escort and Custody Service (PECS) suppliers on any occasion where a courtroom delay has occurred because of failure by the contractor.Some individual journeys where the straight-line...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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