Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds figures on the number of occasions in each of the last five years that computers on the prison estate in England and Wales have been used to access web pages containing inappropriate materials such as pornography.

Security controls on internet access mechanisms and other routes restrict the ability for devices across the prison estate to access such material. All IT and IT media that prisoners have access to is also checked regularly for illicit material, including pornography. Where problems are identified, they are quickly investigated and additional controls put in-place.

This information is not centrally held and can only be accessed at disproportionate cost.