§ 37. Mr. THORNEasked the Home Secretary if he will enumerate the articles made by prison labour in His Majesty's prisons; the value of such articles over a period of 12 months to the nearest available date; and how the articles are disposed of?
Mr. STANLEYA list of prison industries, with the annual value of the various products, is given in Appendix 7 of the Annual Report of the Prison Commissioners, the latest issue of which is Command Paper 3868. Except for a very occasional sale of a few special articles to private purchasers, at a price not below the market price, all articles made in prisons in England and Wales are used by the Prison Department or Government Departments.
Sir F. HALLHas my hon. Friend's attention been drawn to the enormous increase in prison-made goods in Soviet Russia?