HC Deb 20 November 1893 vol 18 c1278
ADMIRAL FIELD

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the Appendix, Part II., of Report of Directors of Convict Prisons, 1893, and to the Chaplain's Report respecting Dartmoor Prison, wherein it is shown that an Assistant Chaplain is urgently needed, the Chaplain stating that it is as much as he can do to see daily those prisoners who apply for an interview, and that others go from one end of the year to the other without a visit; and whether he will sanction the appointment of an Assistant Chaplain or Scripture Reader forthwith, there being over 700 Protestant prisoners in the prison?

MR. ASQUITH

There is at Dartmoor a Protestant Scripture Reader besides the Chaplain, and it is the opinion of the Directors of Convict Prisons that this is sufficient.