HC Deb 07 July 1915 vol 73 cc366-7
60. Sir J. D. REES

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether His Majesty's Government has under consideration the propriety of equipping one prison as an arms factory to which volunteers from other prisons could be drafted, subject to necessary conditions as to their fitness for the work?

The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)

I must refer the hon. Gentleman to my answer to him on the 23rd June, and to the explanation I gave him in Debate on that day. Prison labour is already being employed to the best advantage in connection with war supplies.