Prisons: Employment

(asked on 12th April 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many hours of purposeful activity were recorded on average by prisoners in each month in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Lord Faulks Portrait
Lord Faulks
This question was answered on 25th April 2016

Purposeful activity and time unlocked were two of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) performance indicators of safety and decency in prisons up to 2011/12. The indicators were discontinued at the start of 2012/13.

Average Hours of Purposeful Activity per Prisoner per Week

April 2010 to March 2012

Month

Average Hours of Purposeful Activity per Prisoner per Week

April 2010

24.3

May 2010

24.2

June 2010

24.9

July 2010

24.9

August 2010

24.4

September 2010

25.0

October 2010

25.1

November 2010

24.7

December 2010

23.1

January 2011

25.1

February 2011

25.2

March 2011

25.5

April 2011

23.9

May 2011

24.7

June 2011

25.4

July 2011

25.5

August 2011

24.5

September 2011

25.1

October 2011

25.0

November 2011

25.0

December 2011

23.1

January 2012

24.4

February 2012

24.7

March 2012

24.9

Figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

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