HC Deb 06 May 1898 vol 57 cc513-4
MR. PICKERSGILL

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why the employment of female prisoners in Wormwood Scrubbs Prison in doll-dressing, to which reference was made in the Report for 1896–7, has been discontinued?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

Doll-dressing has not been discontinued, but merely suspended during a temporary slackness of trade.