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Prisoners: Fingerprints

Volume 465: debated on Wednesday 24 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the cost of determining how many prisons fingerprint inmates on reception; and if he will make a statement. (159831)

The cost of determining how many prisons fingerprint prisoners is not held centrally and would require each prison to be contacted to detail their practices at a disproportionate cost.