Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cells at HMP Liverpool that were designed for single occupancy have been certified by the relevant Prison Group Director in accordance with PSI 17/2012 to accommodate two prisoners or more.

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