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Prisons: Crime

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

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
11 Dec 2025
Answer
17 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

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

  2. 11 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    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...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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