Question follow-through · 99074

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his department will provide the total number of prisoner days, aggregated across all prisoners, in which an individual prisoner with a disability received a) no time in open air and b) no time out of cell.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Ministry of Justice
Tabled
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
15 Dec 2025
Answer
17 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 10 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his department will provide the total number of prisoner days, aggregated across all prisoners, in which an individual prisoner with a disability received a) no time in open air and b) no time out of cell.

  2. 15 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The information requested for adult prisoners is not held by the Ministry of Justice, as collecting data on time in and out of cell would require detailed monitoring of cell activity in each prison establishment.PSI 75/2011 (Residential Services), which i...

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