To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many hours of purposeful activity were recorded on average by prisoners in each month in each of the last five years.
Answered on
25 April 2016
Purposeful activity and time unlocked were two of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) performance indicators of safety and decency in prisons up to 2011/12. The indicators were discontinued at the start of 2012/13.
Average Hours of Purposeful Activity per Prisoner per Week | ||||
April 2010 to March 2012 | ||||
Month | Average Hours of Purposeful Activity per Prisoner per Week | |||
April 2010 | 24.3 | |||
May 2010 | 24.2 | |||
June 2010 | 24.9 | |||
July 2010 | 24.9 | |||
August 2010 | 24.4 | |||
September 2010 | 25.0 | |||
October 2010 | 25.1 | |||
November 2010 | 24.7 | |||
December 2010 | 23.1 | |||
January 2011 | 25.1 | |||
February 2011 | 25.2 | |||
March 2011 | 25.5 | |||
April 2011 | 23.9 | |||
May 2011 | 24.7 | |||
June 2011 | 25.4 | |||
July 2011 | 25.5 | |||
August 2011 | 24.5 | |||
September 2011 | 25.1 | |||
October 2011 | 25.0 | |||
November 2011 | 25.0 | |||
December 2011 | 23.1 | |||
January 2012 | 24.4 | |||
February 2012 | 24.7 | |||
March 2012 | 24.9 | |||
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.