§ MR. FLOWERI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state the number of cranks and tread wheels at present in use in local prisons?
§ MR. COLLINGSThere are 33 tread-wheels and 11 cranks now in use. All these are used for productive or useful prison purposes, e.g., grinding wheat, sawing wood, or pumping water.
§ MR. FLOWERIs there any intention of gradually doing away with these cranks and tread wheels?
§ MR. COLLINGSThat I cannot say.