Teresa Pearce – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Teresa Pearce on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times (a) family and (b) legal visits to prisoners in HM Prison Belmarsh have been cancelled in each of the last 12 months; and for what reason each such visit was cancelled.

Andrew Selous

Family and legal visits have been cancelled on two occasions in the last 12 months at HM Prison Belmarsh. These were;

8 October 2015 – Due to a full lock down search of the prison

9 December 2015 – To enable a Trade Union meeting