Question follow-through · 16982
Prison Accommodation: Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress he has made on the installation of Automatic Fire Detection across prison accommodation.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress he has made on the installation of Automatic Fire Detection across prison accommodation.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2026
Answer published
Under this Government, H M Prison & Probation Service has adopted a strategic approach to fire safety improvement across the prison estate, prioritising the installation of in-cell automatic fire detection (AFD) to minimise the risk of harm from fires...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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