Prison Accommodation

Alan Duncan
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many hospital beds in each prison are being used to ease overcrowding elsewhere in the prison;

(2) how many prisons used hospital beds to ease overcrowding elsewhere in the prison in 2009.

Maria Eagle
Places in in-patient health care centres may be added to the certified normal accommodation and/or operational capacity of a prison when routinely used to accommodate patients but not simply to provide additional accommodation to manage population pressures.