Drones over Prisons

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 July 2018.

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Photo of Rory Stewart Rory Stewart The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice 12:00, 10 July 2018

We have made a lot of progress on the issue. In prisons such as Liverpool, where the new grilles are coming in, and Chelmsford, where we have the new protective equipment in place, we can see that it is more and more difficult to get a drone into a prison. When the nets are working and the grilles are up, it is difficult to do. There are other things we can do, too. One central thing is intelligence operations to identify organised criminal gangs. We are introducing sentences—in a recent case someone who flew a drone into a prison received a seven-year sentence.