Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how long the trial of the provision of tasers to prison officers will last, in which prison it will take place, and how many prison officers will be armed with tasers during the trial.

The operational trial of the use of Conductive Energy Devices (CEDs, commonly known as “tasers”) will commence in summer 2025 and continue until there is sufficient evidence to provide a basis for recommendations to the Lord Chancellor. Officers in the Operational Response and Resilience Unit (ORRU) in HM Prison and Probation Service will be equipped with CEDs when attending certain incidents across the adult male estate.