Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January to Question 120488, for what reasons that Answer did not provide information on what categories of information the Government collects on detached duty.

The answer to Question 120488 by my honourable friend, the member for East Surrey, sought to make clear that detached duty is driven by operational decisions and assessments based on a wide range of information. The discrete data that HMPPS currently collates in relation to detached duty is designed for administrative use only, to assist and support the management of detached duty. In the broadest terms it relates to staffing levels and demand and supply levels of available staff.

The data is drawn from a number of sources and it is necessarily dynamic and often time limited with a number of caveats. The data and a number of other dynamic dependencies are brought together in the context of the need at a particular time when detached duty is being planned and implemented. At present, there is no intention to routinely publish such data relating to detached duty.