Government response
Not tracked (historical inquiry)
Delivery
No statement from the addressee found
Recommendation 12: Guidelines on requests to share with named prisoner
From Report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry (Volumes I and II), published 29 June 2006.
Recommendation
The Prison Service should publish guidelines to assist officers in handling requests by prisoners to share a cell with a particular prisoner. Practical problems should not be treated as an insuperable hurdle preventing an otherwise suitable move of a prisoner from one cell to another.
Jurisdiction: UK-wide
Page: 457
Reference: Part 5, Chapter 55: Cell-sharing; recommendation follows paragraph 55.31
Government response
No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched (last checked 7 March 2026). This is separate from the response above.
Source
Inquiry
Zahid Mubarek Inquiry
Report
Report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry (Volumes I and II)
29 Jun 2006
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Recommendation made
20.3 years ago