Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the document entitled COVID-19: National Framework for Prison Regimes and Services, published on 2 June 2020, if he will publish the (a) the Regime Stage, (b) rates of deaths, hospitalisations and infections in custody, (c) prison capacity and receipts, (d) staffing levels, (e) an assessment of the ability to test symptomatic staff, symptomatic prisoners, and all prisoners on reception and transfer and (f) sufficiency of personal protective equipment to meet future demand for each prison on a weekly basis.

At present some of this information is only available as internal management information but we are considering how we report publicly on progress in the implementation of the National Framework, using suitably quality assured data and information.

Currently, prison population figures are published weekly: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2020

Additionally, prison population, receptions and releases are published within our Offender Management Statistics quarterly bulletin: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly;

We also publish deaths, self-harm and assaults in prison custody within our quarterly Safety in Custody statistics bulletin: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics;

Prison staffing levels are published in our quarterly HMPPS Workforce Statistics bulletin: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics