§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the report on the inquiry into the prison service, currently being undertaken, will contain any recommendations on the treatment of young offenders.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesThe committee of inquiry into the United Kingdom prison service has not completed its work. It is an independent committee, and I am not in a position to say what recommendations it will in due course make.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date he intends to publish the report on the inquiry into the prison service currently being undertaken.
§ Mr. Jim Spicerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive the report of the Home Office inquiry set up to look into the conditions of service in Her Majesty's prisons.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesI have nothing to add at this stage to the reply I gave to Questions by the hon. Members for Brighton, Kemptown (Mr. Bowden) and 5W the City of London and Westminster, South (Mr. Brooke) on 30th November.—[Vol. 959, c. 355.]