Prisons: Coronavirus

(asked on 7th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2020 to Question 115561 on Prisons: Coronavirus, whether regular covid-19 testing of frontline staff was in place in all prisons in England and Wales on 1 December 2020.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 16th December 2020

Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) has been working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, and public health colleagues in England and Wales on providing access to Covid-19 tests in prisons.

On 3 December, which is the earliest confirmed data available for that month, regular front-line staff testing was in place at 117 sites. Such testing is now taking place across the whole of the estate.

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