Found: following courts will move to HMP Brixton: • Guildford Magistrates’ and Crown Courts (from HMP Wandsworth

Found: Huntercombe (previously used to visit Campsfield House IRC) Befriending Support Team for HMP Wandsworth

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of healthcare provision in HMP Wandsworth.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Healthcare services at HMP Wandsworth underwent inspection, jointly undertaken by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons and the Care Quality Commission, in May 2024. The joint inspectorate noted that improvements had been made across the provision of healthcare since the last inspection. The full report is available at the following link:

https://hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_reports/hmp-wandsworth-3/

NHS England continues to monitor service provision and the quality of the healthcare service, meeting with the healthcare provider on a quarterly basis to discuss quality and assurance matters. Quality and assurance visits to the service are also taking place, attended by the Lead Commissioner and Clinical Quality Lead.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the correspondence of 12 and 26 September 2024 from the Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending to the hon Member for Tooting on HMP Wandsworth, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of installing protective netting in HMP Wandsworth to prevent drone incursions.

Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

Additional netting is one of a number of measures that HMP Wandsworth is seeking to progress in the coming months, in order to address the shortcomings that have been identified by HM Inspectorate of Prisons

HM Prison & Probation Service is continuing to work collaboratively with the Metropolitan Police to ensure appropriate sharing of intelligence to support the apprehension of those involved in drone use.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is for the production of the action plan for HMP Wandsworth.

Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons’ findings at HMP Wandsworth are deeply concerning. The Lord Chancellor and the Minister of State for Prisons are determined to drive improvement at the prison and we published our response to the Urgent Notification on 6 August 2024.

We also published HMP Wandsworth’s full action plan on 29 August 2024. This action plan addresses the key concerns made by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) during the inspection.

Lord Timpson, Minister of State for Prisons, visited HMP Wandsworth on 2 September, accompanied by Lord Ponsonby and will continue to take an active interest in progress at the prison until we are persuaded that sustainable improvement has been delivered.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of pest control at HMP Wandsworth in the last 12 months.

Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

HMP Wandsworth pays £16,238 per annum for a contracted weekly pest control service. The cost of additional pest control work during the last 12 months totals £99,900.92. This work is being carried out as part of our wider efforts to improve living conditions at the prison, which also includes additional specialist staff, to ensure immediate action is being taken.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is to publish her Department's response to the Chief Inspector of Prison's Urgent Notification letter of 8 May 2024 on HMP Wandsworth.

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons’ findings at HMP Wandsworth are deeply concerning. My right Hon. Friend, the Lord Chancellor, is determined to drive improvement at the prison and will publish her response to the Urgent Notification as soon as possible.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the secondment of police officers to cover shifts in Wandsworth Prison in the last 30 days.

Answered by Edward Argar - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

No police officers have been seconded to cover shifts in HMP Wandsworth in the last 30 days.

Found: HMP Belmarsh, HMP Birmingham, HMP Bristol, HMP Highpoint, HMP Kingston, HMP Leeds, HMP Parc and HMP Wandsworth

Found: There were 2 escapes from prison in the latest year, which occurred at HMP Chelmsford and HMP Wandsworth

Found: Lord Chancellor orders urgent action to improve HMP Wandsworth

Found: Extensive assurance activity after the escape from HMP Wandsworth highlighted significant weaknesses

Found: CARE London * 1 * AAA-S01 Y03135 BRIDGE HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE London 37 37 100 AAA-S01 Y03212 HMP WANDSWORTH

Found: There were 2 escapes from prison in the latest year, which occurred at HMP Chelmsford and HMP Wandsworth