Prison Accommodation Alan Duncan To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Harborough of 8 June 2009, Official Report, columns 774-75W, on prison accommodation, how many cells were not in use in each (a) prison for adult males, (b) prison for adult females, (c) young offender institution for males and (d) young offender institution for females on 1 January 2010 or the latest date for which figures are available. Mr. Straw As at 29 January 2010 there were 1,598 places recorded as out of use from the total certified normal accommodation (CNA) of the prison estate. This represents 2.1 per cent. of the total CNA. The data available do not allow for a breakdown of whether these places are for young offenders or adults. Comprehensive information on why these places are out of use is not held centrally, however the majority of out of use accommodation will be due to maintenance or refurbishment work taking place. There is a planned programme of refurbishment of accommodation which requires the temporary closure of prison places. This allows the critical maintenance of the estate to be undertaken whilst having no significant change on the number of net places in use. The following table shows the total number of places that were recorded as out of use by male and female establishments. HMP Ashwell has 415 places out of use following an incident in April 2009. HMP Wealstun has 300 places out of use while part of the establishment is re-rolled to closed conditions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Establishment name |Number of places out of use|Percentage of CNA| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Male establishments | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ashfield |7 |1.7 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ashwell |415 |69.3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Aylesbury |12 |2.6 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bedford |1 |0.9 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Channings Wood |2 |0.3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cookham Wood |25 |17.2 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Dartmoor |62 |9.8 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Dorchester |8 |5.5 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Edmunds Hill |10 |2.6 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Elmley (Sheppey Cluster) |18 |2.4 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Featherstone |29 |4.3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Full Sutton |8 |1.3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Grendon |23 |9.1 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Haslar |22 |13.8 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Hindley |66 |13.0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Isle of Wight1 |1 |0.1 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Lincoln |12 |2.7 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Liverpool |10 |0.8 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Long Lartin |13 |2 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Manchester |16 |1.7 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Moorland |13 |1.8 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Pentonville |5 |0.5 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Portland |72 |11.9 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ranby |1 |0.1 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rochester |32 |4.2 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Spring Hill |1 |0.3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Stoke Heath |58 |9.1 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Swaleside |127 |13.6 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Swansea |18 |7.3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wakefield |1 |0.1 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wealstun |300 |37 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Whatton |45 |0.4 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Whitemoor |28 |5.7 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Woodhill |5 |0.8 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wormwood Scrubs |23 |2 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Female establishments | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Askham Grange |24 |16.0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Holloway |29 |5.5 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Low Newton |45 |14.3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |New Hall |9 |2.3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Styal |2 |0.4 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 The sites at Albany, Camphill and Parkhurst constitute HMP Isle of Wight.| | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------