Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 182584

Prisons: Employment

Tabled: 25 April 2023

Answered: 2 May 2023

Named Day

Question

Steve Reed

Labour (Co-op) — Streatham and Croydon North

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.

Answer

Damian Hinds

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.

YEAR	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
NUMBER OF CHARGES	*	1068	1079	828	922	941	823	811	707	644	184	138	487

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