Prisons
Home Department

Edward Garnier (Shadow Minister (Home Affairs), Home Affairs; Harborough, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 9 January 2007, Official Report, columns 546-7W, on prisons, when he expects to make publicly available the results of the trial of the body orifice scanner in the high security prison.

Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Bradford South, Labour)
There are no plans to make public the results of this trial. It would not be in the public interest to publicise details of Prison Service security mechanisms.
