We reject this recommendation. In the Prisons Strategy White Paper, we set out the ambition for the next decade and beyond to meet our aims on skills and employment by making the estate digitally enabled for prisoners. We are working to ensure prisons have the digital infrastructure they need to provide prisoners with a strategic, managed in-cell laptop service which features transactional services (such as prison shopping) and curated content, such as access to the Virtual Campus online learning platform. We have started to deliver this, and services will be in place in 15 prisons by the end of October 2022 (including Young Offender Institutions and two Women’s Prisons). However, rolling this equipment out across the whole prison service is subject to continued and long-term resourcing so at present we cannot set a timetable for deployment across the whole estate.