Question to the Ministry of Justice:

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.

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.