Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 December 2016.
Sam Gyimah
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
12:00,
6 December 2016
Cell searches are carried out on an intelligence-led basis at establishment level. In addition, we are investing £3 million on a regional and national intelligence network so that we can identify where phones, for example, are being smuggled in to aid criminal activities in our prisons and deal with such situations appropriately.