Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made on the total number of adjudications issued due to prisoners refusing to work in each year since 2010.

The prisoner discipline system upholds justice in prisons and ensures incidents of prison rule-breaking have consequences. The Ministry of Justice monitors adjudication outcomes by offence, age, gender, ethnicity, religion and adjudicator, this data is published quarterly and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.

The number of adjudication charges issued due to prisoners refusing to work or attend work can be found in the table below.

*The 2010 figure has not been provided due to data quality issues with the 2010 adjudications data.