Prisoners (Open University)

HC Deb 16 December 1971 vol 828 cc164-5W

64. Mr. Driberg

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department from which prisons prisoners may apply to become students at the Open University; how many prisoners have been accepted for the coming year from each of these prisons; and whether full facilities for study will be made available for these students.

Mr. Calisle

Albany, Gartree and Wakefield prisons. Respectively eight, eight and 21 applications from each prison are under consideration by the Open University, with whom the facilities to be provided have been agreed.