§ MR. MOSS (Denbighshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that in some of Her Majesty's prisons in the Principality of Wales the notices which are expected to be read by the prisoners are in English only, that in some cases the prisoners are monoglot Welshmen, and in other cases illiterate Englishmen; and whether, under these circumstances, he will take the necessary steps for having the notice sprinted in future both in English and Welsh, and that in every case they shall be explained to the prisoners.
§ SIR. M. WHITE RIDLEYThe old notices were printed in Welsh and issued thus to prisons in Wales. As soon as the new notices, rendered necessary by the Act of 1898 and the new rules made by me, had been printed in English, they were sent for translation into Welsh. The final revision of the proofs by the translator has just been received, and the notices are going to press to-day. The notices are read to all prisoners on reception.