Berwyn Prison

(asked on 15th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been engaged in work at Commercial Prison Industries' (a) DHL Workshop, (b) LMB Workshop, (c) Census Data Workshop and (d) Ink2Work Workshop in HMP Berwyn in each of the last three years.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 21st January 2019

At HMP Berwyn, alongside the DHL workshop, Interserve provide a variety of prison industry workshops to the prisoners. Upon arrival to HMP Berwyn, prisoners are offered the opportunity to engage in educational or vocational courses whilst they are in custody to gain skills and qualifications that better equip them for life once they are released.

The DHL Workshop – Offers a capacity of 75 workspaces with the full offering allocated, on average 69 prisoners attend on a sessional basis. This equates to 1864 hours on average a week.

Interserve currently provide employment opportunities in the below workshops:

  • The LMB Workshop offers 50 allocated work spaces to prisoner’s with an average of 36 attending on a sessional basis. This equates to 1017 hours on average a week.

  • The Census Data Workshop offer 51 allocated work spaces to prisoners with an average of 39 attending on a sessional basis. This is an average of 1101.75 hours on average a week.

  • The Ink2Work Workshop currently offers a capacity 30 workspaces with an average of 26 attending on a sessional basis. This equates to 847.50 hours on average a week.

HMP Berwyn is still increasing its numbers of workspaces provided within the Prison Industry compound and progress is being made throughout 2019 for these to come online.

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