Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown of data held by his Department on the number of adult safeguarding concerns recorded in prisons.

It is essential that safeguarding concerns regarding prisoners are recorded and acted upon. Action needs to be taken at local level, so the information requested is held within establishments. A variety of different systems and processes are used for this purpose. As records are held locally rather than centrally, to gather the information requested it would be necessary to make individual enquiries of every prison establishment, and this could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.