Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much additional funding his Department has allocated to enact its response to the urgent notification protocol which was issued for HMP Exeter.

The Secretary of State published his response to the Her Majesty’s Chief Inspectorate of Prisons Urgent Notification (UN) on the 27 June. The letter and action plan can be found on the gov.uk website at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/urgent-notification-for-hmp-exeter

A separate resource budget to help support prisons that receive an Urgent Notification (UN) does not exist and additional funding is drawn from a range of business as usual budgets.