HC Deb 24 February 1949 vol 461 cc2009-10
12. Mr. Hugh Fraser

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that some 20 prison officers are still without living quarters at Stafford Prison, except for cells and other rooms normally used by prisoners; and why, although a building site was purchased by the Prison Commissioners in 1946, no steps to construct houses thereon have yet been taken.

Mr. Ede

Twenty-five officers are provided with bachelor quarters in Stafford Prison, three in a former hospital ward and 22 in the former women officers' quarters. The Prison Commissioners did not obtain possession of a site for building new quarters until July, 1948, and the necessary steps were then taken by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Works to start the building of 10 houses, which have been approved by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health.