Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate the Government has made of the proportion of prisoners who spend more than 22 hours per day in their cell.

The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The Government is fully committed to making our prisons safe so that they can provide the maximum time out of cell for meaningful and purposeful activity to give prisoners the training, skills and work experience needed on release.