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<p>In recognition of the importance of maintaining family ties, since 24 March the
Government has rolled out 1297 secure mobile phones across the prison estate in England
and Wales. This is in addition to existing wing phones and in-cell telephones. As
of the 21 July 2020, 153,918 minutes of calls have taken place from secure mobile
PIN phones since 2nd April when this service was deployed.</p><p>We do not routinely
record the number of calls that take place over long periods of time, however our
most recent data shows that on 21 July, 2803 calls took place across all mobile phones.
This equates to 14,783 minutes across the estate. For comparison, 222,889 minutes
of calls took place across the non-mobile based PIN network. There has been a 52%
increase in calls across pin phone calls from the average call number in February,
we do not currently have the equivalent data for just mobile phones.</p><p>We do not
record figures for minutes that prisoners have spent on calls by prison across the
time period mentioned.. We have access to daily call figures across the entire secure
mobile network and also individual prison figures on a given day. We are working with
our supplier to identify whether we can report on cumulative figures for individual
prisons.</p>
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