HC Deb 20 June 1963 vol 679 cc634-5
26. Miss Bacon

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive the report on After-Care from his Advisory Committee.

Mr. Brooke

I 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 Bacon

Is 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 such a long time, win the right hon. Gentleman take steps to act as soon as he receives the report?

Mr. Brooke

I 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.