Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Keen of Elie on 5 January (HL4312) and 24 January (HL4477), when was the most recent ministerial visit to HM Prison Liverpool prior to the Prisons Minister's visit on 22 January.

In my answer to HL4312 I confirmed that there had been no ministerial visits to HMP Liverpool in the last year. I also advised of the prison visits undertaken by ministers in 2016 and 2017 in my response to HL4313. Information on ministerial visits before that time would need to be retrieved from manual records at the prison or from archived records held by the Ministry of Justice. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.