Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to ensure that hon. Members are notified when a prison in their constituency is placed in special measures.

For Question 150748, please see our response to 148963.

Special Measures is an internal operational process undertaken by HM Prisons and Probation Service to provide additional support to prisons to improve performance. This process allows prisons to access wider support from available national resources.

Data on the performance of prisons is published on gov.uk and the next set of annual performance outcomes will be published in Summer 2018.

Honourable Members are already informed if a prison receives an Urgent Notification from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons as part of external scrutiny processes.