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1024846

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date	13/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Telephones
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many violent incidents occurred at shared phones in prison landings in each year from 2012 to 2018.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL12287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/12/2018 answer text <p>This information is not recorded centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that access to telephones can be one of the causes of violence in prisons. As part of our prison safety programme we have developed a violence diagnostic tool that allows prisons to analyse patterns of violent incidents and to identify any ‘hotspots’, such as telephone queues, where preventative action needs to be taken.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/12/2018 09:56:01 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

1024847

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Telephones
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the costs of phone calls from prisons to reflect the tariffs in place for the rest of the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL12288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/12/2018 answer text <p>The prisons PINphone system is not comparable to any other public payphone service, it requires significant investment to meet specific requirements and delivery into prisons and is reflected in the cost of calls. That said, HMPPS is keen to make calls as reasonable as is possible and is therefore working on a programme to extend the availability of in-cell telephony so that by March 2020 there are 50 public sector prisons with phones in cells with call rates reduced.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/12/2018 09:57:34 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

1024848

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Telephones
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce prison landing overcrowding to allow for safer and more secure phone calls from prison.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL12289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/12/2018 answer text <p>Currently, 20 public sector prisons have in-cell telephony, meaning prisoners at these prisons can access the same telephony service that they would through the landing phones but through phones in their cells. We are currently rolling out in-cell telephony to a further 30 prisons, meaning that by March 2020, 50 public sector prisons will have phones in cells.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/12/2018 09:58:45 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

1024849

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Telephones
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to allow competition in the provision of phones in prison.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL12290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/12/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is currently pulling together requirements for future telephony provision in prisons. Once completed, it is the intention of the Ministry to run a competitive process to coincide with the expiry of the current contract.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/12/2018 09:58:09 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German