§ MR. PICKERSGILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many prison warders act as skilled instructors of industries; (2) how many skilled instructors of industries in prisons are exempt from discipline duties; and (3) how many skilled instructors of industries (apart from warders who have discipline duties to discharge) have been introduced into the prisons service since the date of the Report of the Departmental Committee on Prisons?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTThe answer to the first paragraph is 93, besides artisan warders. The information asked for in the second cannot be given until further experience of the new scheme shows definitely to what extent discipline duty can be carried on consistently with instruction in a trade. The instructors appointed have been existing members of the staff, who, after inquiry, were deemed eligible.