Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he made an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations of the Report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry, published in June 2006, when designing HMP Berwyn.
Following the report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry, all new cells were fitted with fixed furniture.
HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Berwyn has been designed to hold prisoners securely in uncrowded accommodation. Therefore, Berwyn accommodates its population across a mix of single and double occupancy cells.
All prisoners on arrival are risk assessed for their suitability to share a cell and allocated accordingly.