(2) how many prisoners convicted for (a) a violent offence and (b) actual bodily harm were transferred to open prisons in 2007;
(3) how many prisoners were detained in open prisons in England and Wales on the most recent date for which figures are available, broken down by prison establishment.
Information on the transfer of prisoners within the prison estate of establishments within England and Wales is not held centrally and to collect it would require extensive manual inspection of records.
The number of prisoners detained in open prisons in England and Wales at the end of November 2007, the latest date for which figures are available, can be found in the following table:
Prison Number of prisoners Open prisons Askham Grange 110 Drake Hall 307 East Sutton Park 97 Ford 471 Hewell Grange 186 Hollesley Bay 325 Kirkham 506 Leyhill 402 Moorland Open 246 North Sea Camp 276 Spring Hill 322 Standford Hill 437 Sudbury 545 Thorn Cross 214 Usk/Prescoed 380 Closed prisons with open units Morton Hall 366 Norwich 532 Reading 263 Wealstun 855
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.