Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of occasions when, due to the loss or theft of keys, a prison has had to be relocked since March 2010; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such incident.

Security is our top priority. If anyone attempts to undermine our security we will do whatever is necessary to ensure prisoners are secure.

Since 2010 there have been 9 relocks at a total cost of £529,973.

Notes:

The figures quoted have been drawn from live administrative databases and may subsequently be amended. Due care is taken during processing and analysis, but the detail is subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.