Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 190334

Prisons: Drugs

Tabled: 20 June 2023
Answered: 26 June 2023
Named Day

Question

Steve Reed

Labour (Co-op)Streatham and Croydon North

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with HM Prison Service on intelligence operations to disrupt the supply of drugs.

Answer

Damian Hinds

Disrupting the supply of drugs into prisons is a key priority and we recognise that the harm that drugs and other illicit substances can create, destabilising the prison regime, fuelling violence and undermining our efforts to rehabilitate prisoners.

We have regular conversations on supply disruption.