Prisons: Mobile Phones
Justice
Written answers and statements, 5 December 2007
Lady Hermon (North Down, UUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many mobile telephones were seized in prisons in England and Wales in each of the last 12 months.
Maria Eagle (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Liverpool, Garston, Labour)
Prison establishments are required to send all seized mobile telephones to HMPS Security Group for interrogation. The following table contains the number of mobile phones (which includes handsets, handsets containing SIM cards, and individual SIM cards) seized and sent for interrogation in each month from
| Month | Total number submitted for interrogation |
| October 2006 | 230 |
| November 2006 | 249 |
| December 2006 | 178 |
| January 2007 | 310 |
| February 2007 | 330 |
| March 2007 | 240 |
| April 2007 | 272 |
| May 2007 | 400 |
| June 2007 | 302 |
| July 2007 | 334 |
| August 2007 | 333 |
| September 2007 | 295 |
| Total | 3,473 |