Prison Safety

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 December 2016.

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Photo of Sam Gyimah 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.