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date	30/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Police Custody
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many police cells are being used as part of Operation Safeguard.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	99866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>We have requested the police make approximately 400 police cells available through Operation Safeguard. These cells will only be used if necessary. As of 1 December, no prisoners were housed in police cells as part of Operation Safeguard.</p><p>Police forces across the country already use police cells occasionally to house prisoners overnight, for example due to late sitting courts. The triggering of Operation Safeguard expands this practice and is not an unprecedented move. It is an established procedure that has been used before in 2007 to ensure that our prison system can operate effectively and safely during periods of high demand.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 99867 question first answered 05/12/2022 14:26:39 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1547049

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Police Custody
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners using police cells as a result of the implementation of Operation Safeguard.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	99867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>We have requested the police make approximately 400 police cells available through Operation Safeguard. These cells will only be used if necessary. As of 1 December, no prisoners were housed in police cells as part of Operation Safeguard.</p><p>Police forces across the country already use police cells occasionally to house prisoners overnight, for example due to late sitting courts. The triggering of Operation Safeguard expands this practice and is not an unprecedented move. It is an established procedure that has been used before in 2007 to ensure that our prison system can operate effectively and safely during periods of high demand.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 99866 question first answered 05/12/2022 14:26:39 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed