This Report sets out the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (NPM) during 2016. Since the Ombudsman was designated as the NPM, on 5 November 2009, this is the seventh Annual Report published. On 20 July 2016, the Ombudsman filed the 2015 NPM Report at the General Register of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, and appeared before the Joint Committee on Ombudsman Relations of Parliament to submit the report on 21 February 2017. On 13 September 2016, this Annual Report was referred to the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture (SPT), in accordance with OPCAT obligations. Without prejudice to the foregoing, in February 2016 the Ombudsman appeared before the Subcommittee at its Geneva head office and reported on its 2015 activities and the targets set for 2016. All annual reports are published on the Ombudsman’s website, whose home page includes a specific “Prevention of Torture” heading. In addition to NPM activities carried out each month, access is also provided on the resolutions issued to the authorities following each visit and a geolocation map of all the visits made. By selecting a specific facility on this map, access is provided to the Recommendations and Suggestions forwarded to the competent administrations, as well as whether or not they were accepted. Of interest, as a novelty, in 2016 videos recorded during some of these visits have been uploaded on the website. Over 2016, following the recommendations made by the members of the Joint Committee on Ombudsman Relations (Spanish Parliament), more visits have been completed over the last few years, totalling 101 visits, all of which are duly reported herein. To do this, the number of multidisciplinary visits has continued, as well as those facilities not previously visited, and the number of follow-up visits has increased. The criteria to select the visited facilities are provided below: a) time elapsed since the last visit; b) recent regulatory amendments; c) follow-up on results; d) news; e) information on civil society organisations; f) supervision of the entire national territory; g) facilities not visited before. In order to prepare each visit, a dossier is drawn up on the type of centre, activity, and its organisational and regulatory structure. 13