§ MR. HERBERT GLADSTONEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any arrangement has yet been made with the Treasury concerning Recommendation VII. of the Departmental Commission on Prisons with regard to the supervision of prison industries?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYThe first part of that recommendation has been carried out, as I have already informed the House, by the appointment of a comptroller of prison industries. As regards the further suggestion of the Committee that the number of skilled teachers of industries should be increased, no definite arrangement has yet been made. A scheme is in course of preparation by the Prison Board, but the subject is a difficult one, and I cannot at present express any opinion on it.