Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times a police cell was used to house an inmate as part of Operation Safeguard in (a) October 2023 and (b) November 2023.

a) A police cell was used as part of operation safeguard 219 times in October 2023

b) A police cell was used as part of operation safeguard 1 time in November 2023 before the full deactivation of Operation Safeguard in that month.