Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels his Department funds.

In response to Part A of the question “what magazine subscriptions his Department funds”.

The Department has no contracted provision to supply general magazines.

In response to Part B of the Question “what television channels his department funds”.

The National Offender Management Service funded The Life Channel in a limited number of Prisons in 2013/2014. This service provides broadcast programming that is aimed at reducing reoffending and cascading general health information to prisoners and visitors.