United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 3972
Prisons: Smart Devices
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21 May 2026
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1 June 2026 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were discovered to have unauthorised (a) mobile phones, (b) iPads and (c) gaming devices in the past year.
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21 May 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were discovered to have unauthorised (a) mobile phones, (b) iPads and (c) gaming devices in the past year.
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1 June 2026
Answer
Table 6.1 of the HMPPS Annual Digest (Chapter 6, Finds in Prison) shows the latest figures for incidents where illicit items were found in prisons in England and Wales. Table 6.3 shows the number of mobile telephones found each month, by establishment. Th...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-05-21/3972
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1908882
- uk · wq-1908882 · source updated 1 June 2026