Prison Accommodation

(asked on 10th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his department will provide the total number of prisoner days, aggregated across all prisoners, in which an individual prisoner received a) no time in open air and b) no time out of cell.


Answered by
Jake Richards Portrait
Jake Richards
Assistant Whip
This question was answered on 17th December 2025

The information requested for adult prisoners is not held by the Ministry of Justice, as collecting data on time in and out of cell would require detailed monitoring of cell activity in each prison establishment.

PSI 75/2011 (Residential Services), which includes general guidance on time-out-of-cell, can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/residential-services-psi-752011.

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