§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many body and cell searches took place in Holloway prison during the week of 19 June. [31276]
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§ Mr. Michael ForsythResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Brian Landers to Mr. Tom Cox, dated 3 July 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about Holloway prison.Holloway conducted 103 cell searches during the week of 19 June. They also conducted 449 strip searches, which would have occurred as part of cell searches; on reception and discharge; after visits; or as part of the mandatory drug testing programme. Prisoners would also have been subject to rub down searches routinely as they moved around the establishment.