Written question asked by Richard Burgon (Labour) on Tuesday, 12 December 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 14 December 2017. It was answered by Sam Gyimah (Conservative) on Wednesday, 20 December 2017 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Prisons: Transport

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions a private transport provider (a) cancelled and (b) postponed scheduled transport between prisons in each of the least five years.

Answer

The number of cancellations of scheduled transport for prisoners between prisons for the last 5 calendar years is provided in the table below.

	Number of prisoners moved between prisons	Number of cancellations	Total	Percentage cancelled
2013	71,504	17,510	89,014	19.7%
2014	70,625	22,705	93,330	24.3%
2015	68,890	22,106	90,996	24.3%
2016	69,556	24,590	94,146	26.1%
2017 to date	60,682	19,622	80,304	24.4%

Movement between prisons is robustly managed and cancellations occur for a broad range of operational reasons that include prisoner refusal, operational difficulties within discharging or receiving prison taking prioritisation, prisoner requiring medical treatment, and traffic delays en route.

Data for postponed transport is not recorded centrally.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 119041
Session: 2017-19
Subjects: Private sector Prisons Transport
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

Prisons: Transport

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