Andrew Percy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Percy on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with mobile telephone operators on operators terminating accounts shown to be illegally active within the HM prison estate.

Jeremy Wright

On 5 March 2014, together with my hon Friend the member for Staffordshire Moorlands, I met with representatives from the major mobile phone network operators as part of a new government-industry working group to discuss ways to tackle illicit mobile phone use in prisons. Since that meeting, the National Offender Management Service is continuing to work with the networks to further explore options for disabling mobile phones proven to be operating in prisons.