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Prisons: Drugs

Commons · Question 75248 · Tabled 4 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 12 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of automatically transferring prisoners in open prisons who fail drugs tests to Category C prisons.

Answer

Answered by Jake Richards, 12 Sep 2025

Prisoners held in open conditions can be re-categorised to higher security conditions at any time if their risk increases, if there is a material change in circumstances that impacts security risk, or information (including existing information not consid...