Prisoners' Release: Christmas

(asked on 13th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long prisoners will spend out of cells on Christmas Day.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 20th December 2022

All prisons will be planning to deliver a regime on Christmas day that allows prisoners to spend time out of their cells. However, information about time out of cell for adult prisoners is not held by the Ministry of Justice, as it would require detailed daily monitoring of out-of-cell activity of each prisoner in each establishment.

As the Christmas Day regime is decided locally, we do not keep central records of what each prison has planned, and it would not be possible to obtain the information requested on a prison-by-prison basis without approaching each prison individually, which would incur disproportionate cost.

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