Question follow-through · 99071
Prisons: E. coli
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases of e-coli were reported in each individual prison in each of the last 10 calendar years.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases of e-coli were reported in each individual prison in each of the last 10 calendar years.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
Statistics on prisoners’ health are the responsibility of the NHS. I am informed that the figures that are collected do not indicate whether an illness or hospitalisation relates to unhygienic conditions or show the causes of illnesses linked to E-coli.Ar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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