Oral Evidence Jul. 18 2023
Inquiry: The work of the Lord ChancellorFound: My brother is chair of the Prison Reform Trust.
Oct. 25 2023
Source Page: Government response to the Law Commission’s review of confiscationFound: DLT: Distributed Ledger Technology DPA: Deferred Prosecution Agreement DTA 199 4: Drug Trafficking
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and East Dulwich)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's timeline is for the work to improve digital access across the prison estate.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
A key strategic objective of the 2021-2024 HMPPS Digital, Data, and Technology Strategy is to give the people in our care digital tools and technology to support their rehabilitation, including prisoner education and administration. Within that strategy, we have committed to making laptops available in prisoners’ cells in up to 15 prisons through the In-Cell Technology programme by the end of October 2022. We have now completed deployments to 9 sites, with a further 4 to be completed by October, and we are also refreshing the devices and service in the two original in-cell prisons (Wayland and Berwyn) to ensure they remain secure and supportable. Furthermore, we have now enabled the rollout of the education software, Virtual Campus 2, on in-cell laptops, offering people in prison access to education services while in their cell.
We acknowledge the potential benefits this can bring to prisons, with initial feedback from prisons highlighting the time saved for staff and the benefits to prisoners’ wellbeing, including reducing levels of stress and anxiety. Consequently, we aim to continue our work on this programme and continue rollout to more of the prison estate in the coming years.
Jul. 28 2022
Source Page: HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2021 to March 2022Found: their liberty by breaching the secure perimeter of a closed prison.
Apr. 13 2022
Source Page: Ministry of Justice Commercial PipelineFound: Extension Options Value Procurement Route UNSPC Category Main Contact Support Comments con_12114 Service Prison
Jun. 01 2022
Source Page: The Queen's Birthday Honours 2022Found: Covid Gold Command, HM Prison and Probation Service.
Feb. 23 2022
Source Page: HMPPS evidence to Prison Service Pay Review Body: 2022Found: The PSPRB remit group comprises all Prison Governors, Operational Managers, Prison O fficers and
Feb. 23 2022
Source Page: HMPPS evidence to Prison Service Pay Review Body: 2022Found: The PSPRB remit group comprises all Prison Governors, Operational Managers, Prison O fficers and
Asked by: Matt Hancock (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons have (a) provision for and (b) operational in-cell devices provided by (i) Coracle and (ii) other providers, broken down by prison.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The total number of prison sites which have provision for, and operational in-cell devices provided by Coracle is currently 21. There will also be approximately 300 more devices being deployed across an additional 20 sites in total by the end of January 2022. The table below breaks down the figures for the number of these in-cell devices by prison.
HMP Belmarsh | 17 |
HMP Buckley Hall | 20 |
HMP Cardiff | 5 |
HMP Full Sutton | 15 |
HMP Guys Marsh | 8 |
HMP Highpoint (North and South) | 18 |
HMP Hollesley Bay | 11 |
HMP Hull | 12 |
HMP Hydebank Wood College | 16 |
HMP Isle of Wight | 20 |
HMP Isis | 15 |
HMP Kirklevington Grange | 10 |
HMP Northumberland | 8 |
HMP Parc | 5 |
HMP Pentonville | 11 |
HMP Prescoed | 2 |
HMP Stocken | 3 |
HMP Swaleside | 12 |
HMP Swansea | 5 |
HMP Warren Hill | 10 |
HMP Whitemoor | 15 |
Total | 238 |
The total number of prison sites which have provision for, and operational in-cell devices by other providers (MoJ D&T managed in-cell technology devices) is currently 8 with an additional 7 sites planned for deployment by the end of 2022. The table below breaks down the figures for the number of these in-cell devices by prison, currently deployed, together with the sites that have the infrastructure deployed, with device and digital services deployment planned for this year:
Site | No. of MoJ managed In-cell Tech Devices | Notes |
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HMP Lindholme | 900 | Full deployment under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HM YOI Feltham | 260 | Full deployment under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HMP/YOI New Hall | 323 | Full deployment under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HM YOI Wetherby | 2 | Deployment in progress under in-cell tech programme |
HM YOI Cookham Wood | 106 | Full deployment under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HM YOI Werrington | 68 | Full deployment under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HMP Wayland | 923 | Full deployment in 2016 |
HMP Berwyn | 1810 | Full deployment in 2016 |
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HMP The Mount |
| Deployments planned by end of 2022 under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HMP Ranby |
| Deployments planned by end of 2022 under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HMP Styal |
| Deployments planned by end of 2022 under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HMP Erlstoke |
| Deployments planned by end of 2022 under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HMP Stoke Heath |
| Deployments planned by end of 2022 under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HMP Garth |
| Deployments planned by end of 2022 under In-Cell Tech Programme |
HMP Swaleside |
| Deployments planned by end of 2022 under In-Cell Tech Programme |
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Total devices deployed as of 6/1/2022 | 4392 |
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Oral Evidence Nov. 04 2021
Inquiry: Prison EducationFound: prison and one a category C prison.