HC Deb 12 March 1992 vol 205 c580W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether cardphones are now available in all prisons.

Mrs. Rumbold

Cardphones for prisoners' use are available at all category C and D prisons, including equivalent female and young offender establishments.

On publication of the Woolf report my right hon. Friend announced that cardphones would be installed in the rest of the prison estate. The installation programme is scheduled to be completed by the end of June 1992.