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30 June 2008
	Muslim prisoners	Percentage of total
Wandsworth	350	21
Wormwood Scrubs	289	23
Pentonville	263	23
Birmingham	222	15
Brixton	215	27
The Mount	208	27
Swaleside	185	24
Feltham	185	29
Lindholme	183	17
Belmarsh	181	20
Hewell	174	12
High Down	165	15
Highpoint	157	19
Manchester	144	12
Lowdham Grange	142	21
Ranby	142	13
Whitemoor	140	34
Dovegate	138	16
Portland	125	20
Bullingdon	124	12
Wayland	123	13
Leeds	121	12
Aylesbury	120	27
Rye Hill	118	19
Chelmsford	118	17
Woodhill	113	14
Full Sutton	109	19
Rochester	108	28
Wellingborough	107	17
Doncaster	106	9
Forest Bank	106	9
Long Lartin	106	24
Blundeston	104	20
Dover	104	34
Swinfen Hall	100	16
Onley	98	15
The Verne	94	16
Canterbury	92	30
Risley	90	8
Sudbury	87	15
Huntercombe	81	23
Moorland Closed	80	10
Garth	79	10
Stocken	77	10
Featherstone	76	11
Grendon/Spring Hill	76	15
Glen Parva	75	9
Wealstun	74	14
Elmley	73	7
Brinsford	72	14
Wymott	72	7
Bedford	71	14
Peterborough	71	7
Camp Hill	70	12
Ashwell	69	13
Littlehey	68	10
Maidstone	67	14
Wakefield	66	9
Liverpool	65	5
Everthorpe	65	10
Edmunds Hill	64	18
Whatton	62	8
Gartree	62	11
Frankland	60	8
Parc	57	5
Preston	57	8
Ford	55	10
Norwich	54	10
Buckley Hall	53	14
Hindley	52	11
Cardiff	52	7
Stafford	52	8
Bullwood Hall	52	24
Coldingley	51	13
Total Muslim prisoners	9,795
All prisoners	83,194
Muslims as percentage of all	12
Note: Prisons with fewer than 50 Muslim prisoners have been excluded.

Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners in each prison who have converted to Islam while in prison in (a) 2008 and (b) each of the previous five years. [246533]

Mr. Hanson: The information requested is not collected in the form required, and could be obtained only at significant disproportionate cost. When a prisoner changes religion this is recorded locally by the chaplaincy team on the prisoner's record. There is no current requirement for this information to be collated centrally.

Prisons

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners were unable to attend workshops, courses or other rehabilitative sessions due to wing refurbishment or other building works in each prison in England and Wales in the last year for which figures are available; for how many days prisoners were made to attend such courses in that period; and if he will make a statement. [245152]

Mr. Hanson: The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) do not hold information on the number of prisoners that were unable to attend workshops, courses or other rehabilitative sessions due to wing refurbishment or other buildings works in prisons in England and Wales.

Building works and refurbishments are essential to enable the Prison Service to ensure that the existing facilities are maintained and additionally to provide the number of prisoner places required to meet the needs of an increasing prison population. Since April 2007 the capacity programme has delivered 4,162 essential additional prisoner places.

Every effort is made to prevent disruption to prison regimes and each prison endeavours to continue to provide a range of purposeful activities. NOMS measures the amount of purposeful activity recorded on average by every prisoner, the outturn for 2007-08 was 25.3 hours per prisoner per week.

The following table provides details of the workshop, education and rehabilitation hours completed by prisoners in all prisons in England and Wales during the period 2007-08.

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