§ MR. PICKERSGILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that there is no more land available for cultivation within Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, but that there is a field suitable for the purpose opposite the prison on the other side of Du Cane Road (a private road); and whether, having regard to the recommendations of the Prison Committee on the subject of employing prisoners in land cultivation, he will endeavour to acquire this field for this purpose?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTThe subject has been under the consideration of the Commissioners, who have made inquiries with regard both to the field mentioned and to other land; no practical scheme, however, has presented itself at present.
§ MR. DAVITT (Mayo, S.)Is it not a fact that there is a good deal of land available for cultivation inside the boundary wall of Wormwood Sorubbs, which is at present devoted to landscape gardening instead of to vegetable growing?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTI can only say that this is a part of the very much larger question of the reorganisation of the prisons of London, which is being considered at the present time.