Ms Caron McCaffrey:

If it is okay with the Deputy, I will take that last item first. As the Deputy has pointed out, there are different types of legal cases that can give rise to compensation within the Prison Service. Those figures relate to claims that were settled in the particular year, so the 2019 figures relate to claims that were settled in that year. I do not have figures for the claims that have been made, but we will certainly send them to the committee before the end of the day.

I should say that we have quite a good engagement with the State Claims Agency, which is responsible for managing slips, trips and falls in personal injury claims. It is also responsible for managing claims relating to slopping out. We are doing extensive work with the agency to identify the reasons behind those claims and understand why issues are arising, and then to take the appropriate action to ensure they do not occur again. I mentioned in my opening statement that we have had some historical claims relating to tuberculosis. There were 99 claims relating to an outbreak in Cloverhill and 44 relating to an outbreak in Shelton Abbey. As a result of that, we have done extensive work on infection control so that we are now in a position to keep our prisons effectively free of Covid-19. We learn from claims and analyse their causes. We have a dedicated health and safety team at a headquarters level and are always seeking to understand the reason a claim occurred and trying to ensure that we can drive down the level of claims that are made.