Thanks i enquired about other models from our provider last week and am awaiting a response.

Oh, I see. Maybe you can request for a different phone model. If I have to recommend one, I think I'll say Nokia 130.

That would be very time consuming for the amount of phones i'm looking at, it's for use in the NHS to protect patient confidentiality, we used to use the Nokia C1-02 / Nokia 207 however our current provider aren't offering any camera free models at the moment since these have gone EOL. Thanks for your answer though.

I think it's only possible if you disconnect the camera. But why would you want to disable it?