| Heading: |
Prisons: Television |
| Question ID: |
1814420 |
| UIN: |
61125 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3952 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Toby Perkins
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| Asking Member handle: |
tobyperkinsmp
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@tobyperkinsmp
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost to prisoners is of the provision of television access in prison cells. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-27 |
| 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 handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
The cost per prisoner in establishments in the adult estate is 50 pence per week if the prisoner is sharing a cell, and £1 per week for prisoners in a single cell.Children and young people in the youth secure estate are not charged for use of televisions. |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |