Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HMP Liverpool is operating with an operational capacity that involves a level of crowding above its Certified Normal Accommodation.

Prison Service Instruction 17 of 2012 sets out that it is the responsibility of the Prison Group Director to ensure that all cells are correctly certified, and recorded on a cell certificate schedule which is signed by the PGD.

Published information on the levels of crowding at HMP Liverpool can be found in the National Offender Management Service Annual digest 2016/17:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-national-offender-management-service-digest-2016-to-2017