Part of Northern Ireland Assembly – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 3:00 pm on 23 January 2012.
With your permission, Mr Speaker, I will answer questions 1 and 9 together.
Significant progress has been made on the implementation of the prison review team’s recommendation 8. Prison Service officials conducted an extensive review of the capabilities and limitations of full-body imaging scanners. The review is now complete. I received a copy of the report at the end of last week and, following discussion with officials, will consider the findings and whether there is any scope to consider a pilot of alternative search technologies in Prison Service establishments.