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The Ministry of Justice has published data up to December 2018.

On the 5 June 2019 I wrote to the Justice Select Committee to provide an update on the modernisation of the prison estate.

Drug testing is an essential element of the HMPPS drug strategy and provides us with robust evidence on the prevalence of drug misuse.

Information on the highest number of previous community sentences received by an offender sentenced to immediate custody, covering the perio

Information on the highest number of previous cautions and convictions an offender had for a specified offence type before receiving a custo

Information on the requirements attached to suspended sentence orders is not held centrally.

The information requested is provided in the tables attached with this answer.

Data on the accommodation status of released prisoners for 2017/18 is published at the following link:

The Ministry of Justice has awarded no contracts to Serco since July 2013.

We have commissioned a demolition survey of the former prison results should hopefully be available, in late July.