Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 98388

Prisons: Crime

Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 17 December 2025

Question

Andrew Rosindell

Reform UKRomford

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to reduce the commission of crime in English prisons.

Answer

Jake Richards
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...

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