Prisons: Crime
Commons · Question 98388 · Tabled 9 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to reduce the commission of crime in English prisons.
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 17 Dec 2025
His Majesty’s Prison and Probation service (HMPPS) has a layered approach to tackling criminality that emanates from within prisons. It deploys countermeasures such as X-ray body and baggage scanners, archway metal detectors and Enhanced Search Gates in p...