§ 26. Miss Baconasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive the report on After-Care from his Advisory Committee.
§ Mr. BrookeI understand that the Sub-Committee of the Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders which has been reviewing the organisation of after-care has recently completed its report, and that the report is shortly to be considered by the full Council, which will then submit its views to me.
§ Miss BaconIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that we have been waiting for this report for a very long time and the news that at last we are to have it is very welcome? As we have been waiting 635 such a long time, win the right hon. Gentleman take steps to act as soon as he receives the report?
§ Mr. BrookeI feel sure that the Committee will have done a very good job. Its inquiry covered an immensely wide range—prisons, borstals, detention centres and approved schools. I shall certainly give very close consideration to the report the moment I get it, because I regard the whole matter as of the highest importance.