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Prisoner Escorts

Answer

The number of contractual delays at the Crown Court attributable to the two PECS suppliers, in each month from September 2023 to February 2024, is shown in the table below.

Contractual delays include both failure to deliver a prisoner, and delay in bringing a prisoner to court. In contractual terms, a delay occurs when a prisoner who is at that time the responsibility of a PECS supplier, is not available in the courtroom at the required time so that courtroom business is delayed by 15 minutes or more. Whenever a delay occurs, its cause is investigated by the PECS Management Team in His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service. During the period for which data have been provided, there were no instances of failure to deliver a prisoner: all recorded instances are attributable to delay in bringing a prisoner to court.

PECS contractual delays to Crown Court hearings, September 2023 to February 2024

Serco	Total moves to Crown Court	Number of contractual delays	Performance %
Sep 2023	4872	5	99.90
Oct 2023	4651	8	99.83
Nov 2023	5408	17	99.69
Dec 2023	3803	20	99.48
Jan 2024	5136	14	99.73
Feb 2024	4733	7	99.86

GEOAmey	Total moves to Crown Court	Number of contractual delays	Performance %
Sep 2023	4904	2	99.96
Oct 2023	5169	3	99.95
Nov 2023	5559	2	99.97
Dec 2023	4419	1	99.99
Jan 2024	5586	1	99.99
Feb 2024	5223	1	99.99

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

19051

Session

2023-24

Subjects

Crown Court Prisoner escorts

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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