Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2018 to Question 64325 and the Answer of 2 March 2018 to Question 64326, how many incidents of (a) drugs by weight, (b) SIM cards and (c) mobile phones were found in prisons in 2017.

The Ministry of Justice intends to routinely publish information on finds of mobile phones, SIM cards and drugs in the future. Data for 2017 will be provided in due course as part of the normal publication schedule at

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-national-offender-management-service-digest-2016-to-2017