§ Mr. PRITTasked the Home Secretary whether he will take steps to allow all prisoners on penal servitude to smoke from the day of arrival at the penal settlement?
§ Mr. LLOYDConsiderable extensions of the privilege of smoking have been introduced in recent years and the result is being carefully watched; but the time has not yet come for a general recasting of the system of progressive stages such as the hon. and learned Member's suggestion would involve.