Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisons in which alcohol was distilled in each of the last three years.

The number of prisons in England and Wales in which alcohol distilling equipment was found in each of the last three years can be seen in our Finds Incidents Data Tool. This tool can be used to see which prisons had incidents of finding distilling equipment in different financial years, and how many incidents of finds there were each year.

There may be occasions where distilled alcohol has been found, but no equipment. Figures in the table count the number of incidents where equipment was found rather than the number of pieces of equipment.