Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2014, Official Report, column 396W, on prisons: business, what criteria each prison has to meet to be considered to have achieved Steady State.
Prisons will be assessed as having achieved ‘Steady State’ when they are delivering the recommended benchmark ‘core day’, staffing profiles and regime, in compliance with arrangements formally agreed with Trades Unions.