Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2022 to Question 39794, Prisons: Exercise, whether the amount of time that prisoners must spend out of their cells in private prisons is set out in a contract.

Time out of cell in private prisons is monitored through our performance measures and contract management arrangements. In cases where the requirement is not specified in the contract, it is set annually as part of the contract management process.