Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers who work at prisons which are in special measures were working on detached duty at another prison during January 2018.

The latest available prison performance ratings data cover the period 2016/17 and are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-annual-performance-ratings-2016-to-2017.

40 prisons were rated as having overall performance of concern in 2016/17. There were 62 prison officers from these prisons working on Detached Duty at other public-sector prisons during January 2018.

There were 16 prison officers from prisons in special measures working on Detached Duty at other public-sector prisons during January 2018.

Detached Duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons and respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.