HC Deb 24 March 1949 vol 463 c540
28. Mr. W. J. Brown

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in order to relieve the anxieties of the prison staff at Oxford as to their future and that of their families, he will give an indication whether or not it is intended to close Oxford Prison during 1950.

Mr. Ede

In 1946 I gave an undertaking that the Oxford Prison site would be relinquished by the Prison Commissioners by the end of 1950 at the latest. With the growth of the prison population since 1946, I see no prospect of relinquishing it any sooner. I am proposing to ask the local interests to whom the undertaking was given to meet me to discuss the changed circumstances.