§ MR. BRIGG (Yorkshire, W.R., Keighley)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the names of the prisons in which manufacturing is carried on; what articles are made in each; and which, if any, employ steam power.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) Manufacturing is carried on in all the prisons in England and Wales, a list of which, and of the various employments, 832 and industries carried on in each, is given in the Annual Report of the Commissioners of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons for the year ending 31st March, 1907. Steam power in connection with manufactures is used at Portland convict prison only, for cutting handstones for the Admiralty.