Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many recorded seizures from prisoners of tobacco, or other related banned smoking products, there have been in prisons in England and Wales in each year since the introduction of the smoking ban.

The information requested could only be collated at disproportionate cost.

Prisons employ a range of comprehensive security measures to detect, disrupt and deter the trafficking of unauthorised items including tobacco into prisons. These include human and technology-led searching of such items, conducted as a matter of routine and on suspicion or an intelligence-led basis; the searching of persons and vehicles; CCTV surveillance; the deployment of active and passive drug-detection dogs; and the use of X-ray facilities.