Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests were denied by his Department for the transfer of prisoners convicted of (a) rape and (b) other sexual offences to category D open prisons in each year between 1997 and 2010.

The Ministry of Justice holds data on the number of prisoners convicted of (a) rape and (b) other sexual offences who were held in a category D open prison in each year between 1997 and 2010. This can be viewed in the attached table. The required dates for PQ135716 (between 2007 and 2010) are a subset of the data required for PQ135715 and so are contained within the same attachment.

For prisoners serving indeterminate sentences, the data requested to answer question 3 is not held as it pre-dates current casework systems which came into use in 2010.