Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 68218

Prisons: Signal Blocking Devices

Tabled: 15 July 2025
Answered: 23 July 2025

Question

Luke Murphy

LabourBasingstoke

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her department is taking to increase the use of phone blocking (a) techniques and (b) technologies in prisons.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin
His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) is committed to tackling the threat to prison security posed by illicit mobile telephones. We have a wide-ranging programme in place to prevent them from entering prisons; to detect and disrupt their us...

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