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Prisoners' Transfers

Question for Ministry of Justice

UIN 26314, tabled on 15 May 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred in each year since 2015.

Answered on

23 May 2024

The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in table 3_A_28 available at Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.