Prisons: Transport
(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
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.
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.