Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adult safeguarding concerns were recorded in prisons in England in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.

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.