Prison Rules and Young Offender Institution Rules: Consolidated Edition

HL Deb 10 February 1997 vol 578 cc6-7WA

Lord Avebury

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How much it cost to print and post copies of the consolidated Prison Rules and Young Offenders Institution Rules, and whether this expenditure would have been avoided if this and other public domain documents were made available on the Internet.

Baroness Blatch

The consolidated versions of the Prison Rules 1964 and the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988 were printed and distributed as Prison Service Instruction 4/1997 issued on 16th January 1997 at a cost of £3,373.98.

The availability of these documents on the Internet would not have reduced the overall cost of production or distribution.