§ Mr. Tom Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what record is kept by prisons as to the number of inmates who are locked up each day due to the lack of prison work.
§ Mr. MellorGovernors are required to manage the resources available to them so as to enable inmates to spend the maximum possible time out of their cells in employment, education, individual or collective recreation, or other activities. Lack of prison work would not therefore necessarily lead to inmates being locked up and governors are not required to keep a separate record of when locking up is directly due to lack of prison work.