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Prisons: Security |
| Question ID: |
1787915 |
| UIN: |
40667 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4595 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Gareth Snell
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Gareth Snell
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using (a) anti-drone technologies and (b) Radio Frequency Effector technology in prisons. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) is working hard to deter, detect and disrupt the use of drones delivering contraband into prisons.The Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021 authorises the use of counter-drone technology... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |