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Written Question
Prisons: Mobile Phones
Tuesday 23rd April 2019

Asked by: Maria Caulfield (Conservative - Lewes)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

What progress his Department has made on tackling mobile phone use in prisons.

Answered by Rory Stewart

Our strategy to tackling the security threat posed by mobile phones is threefold:

  • we must prevent them from getting into our prisons in the first place by expanding airport-style security, including metal detectors and X-ray scanners;
  • we must find and stop those phones from working through using portable detection poles and the latest detection and signal-blocking technologies;
  • we must also exploit the data held on those phones. We have delivered new kits at 30 prisons to allow staff to download data from illicit phones quickly.
Written Question
Prisons: Buildings
Monday 14th September 2015

Asked by: Maria Caulfield (Conservative - Lewes)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to modernise the prison estate; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Andrew Selous

As the Secretary of State made clear in his speech on 17 July, we want to make sure that we have a modern and effective prison estate that supports rehabilitative outcomes for offenders held in custody. We will set out our plans in due course.