Written questions

Prisoners' Transfers: Personal Property

Commons · Question 27034 · Tabled 3 Sep 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 8 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the number of items of prisoner property that were lost in the course of transfers between prisons, and (b) how many prisoners have been affected by this, broken down

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 8 Sep 2026

Information about the instances of lost property is not held centrally. It could not be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.