questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average amount of time prisoners were held in a police cell for under Operation Safeguard in 2023.
answerText: Operation Safeguard is a contingency measure that provides additional headroom for use if prisoners cannot be accepted from the courts or police custody. It is a temporary measure to provide a short-term solution.As of 16 October, there were 1,467 occasio...
heading: Prisons: Overcrowding