Andrew Selous corrected a written answer on Prisons: Imams

8 December 2014 · Commons written answer · Ministry of Justice

Sadiq Khan (Labour, Tooting) asked written question 209538 on 26 September 2014. Andrew Selous answered on 18 November 2014 for the Ministry of Justice, and Andrew Selous corrected the answer on 8 December 2014. The figure 393 in the original became 100 in the correction, lower by 293. Altogether 117 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) adult and (b) youth secure estate establishments have imams.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
There were a total of 70 adult prisons which had one or more directly employed Muslim chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 65% of all adult establishments. 14 establishments in the youth secure estate had one or more directly employed Muslim Chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 93% of the establishments. This information includes both public and private sector establishments. Access to Muslim Chaplains is more widespread than it appears from these figures. There are ~~393~~ imams employed across the prison ~~estate,~~ and the ~~majority~~ of ~~establishments have access~~ to ~~Muslim Chaplains even if they don’t have a directly employed Muslim Chaplain attached to~~ the ~~establishment.~~	There were a total of 70 adult prisons which had one or more directly employed Muslim chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 65% of all adult establishments. 14 establishments in the youth secure estate had one or more directly employed Muslim Chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 93% of the establishments. This information includes both public and private sector establishments. Access to Muslim Chaplains is more widespread than it appears from these figures. There are 100 imams employed across the prison estate and additionally over 100 Muslim Chaplains appointed on a sessional basis. All prisons have multi faith chaplaincy teams to provide and enable religious and pastoral care. These teams invariably include at least one Muslim Chaplain to provide for the religious needs of the Muslim prisoners. There are however one or two prisons where it has not yet been possible to appoint a Muslim Chaplain and the Muslim Adviser is working to appoint these. Where possible, an existing Muslim Chaplain, or one of the Muslim Chaplaincy HQ Advisers, aim to lead the prayers in those prisons on an occasional basis.

Original

Corrected

There were a total of 70 adult prisons which had one or more directly employed Muslim chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 65% of all adult establishments. 14 establishments in the youth secure estate had one or more directly employed Muslim Chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 93% of the establishments. This information includes both public and private sector establishments.
Access to Muslim Chaplains is more widespread than it appears from these figures. There are 100 imams employed across the prison estate and additionally over 100 Muslim Chaplains appointed on a sessional basis. All prisons have multi faith chaplaincy teams to provide and enable religious and pastoral care. These teams invariably include at least one Muslim Chaplain to provide for the religious needs of the Muslim prisoners. There are however one or two prisons where it has not yet been possible to appoint a Muslim Chaplain and the Muslim Adviser is working to appoint these. Where possible, an existing Muslim Chaplain, or one of the Muslim Chaplaincy HQ Advisers, aim to lead the prayers in those prisons on an occasional basis.

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