Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times prisons in Norfolk operated an (a) amber and (b) red regime in each the last 10 years.

As this information demonstrates, the new Government inherited a criminal justice system in crisis, with prisons on the point of collapse.

All public sector prisons have systems in place for the day-to-day management of staff resources and regime delivery, to ensure that regimes are safe, decent, secure, resilient and sustainable.

The recorded information relating to regimes in prisons in Norfolk is available from September 2022 onwards, and is as follows:

Red Regime – None

Amber/Red – 151 times

Green/Amber – 450 times.