Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mobile phones were seized in prisons in each year since 2010.

I refer the member to PQ 64325, which was answered on 27 February 2017.

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-02-17/64325/

The number of mobile phones and SIM cards seized continues to be too high. We have purchased better quality detection equipment in larger quantities and equipped all prisons with additional portable detection devices to use across the prison. We are also working with mobile network operators to deliver ground-breaking technology to stop illicit phones working in prisons.