Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2021 to Question 58816, Prisoners: Crime, whether he holds data on the number of (a) referrals, (b) prosecutions and (c) successful prosecutions relating to crimes allegedly committed by prisoners in (i) HMP Aylesbury, (ii) HMP Berwyn, (iii) HMP Chelmsford, (iv) HMP Rochester and (v) HMP Swaleside in each of the last three years.

The Ministry of Justice is not able to provide data on (a) referrals, (b) prosecutions and (c) successful prosecutions relating to crimes allegedly committed by prisoners as this information is not held centrally on the court proceedings database.

We are currently undertaking a review of our centrally recorded data on crimes in prison and plan for data collection to begin next year (2022). This will require prisons to capture and record the number of police referrals that are made.