Prisons: Smart Devices
Commons · Question 3972 · Tabled 21 May 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
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.
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 1 Jun 2026
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...