§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they can estimate the number of man-hours per week spent by prison officers at various levels on censorship of prisoners' correspondence at Prison Department establishments in England and Wales; and whether they will agree to facilitate research on this matter by an academic institution if proposals are put to them.
§ Lord BelsteadInquiries of each institution to establish the staff time given, full and part time, to censorship work would not be justified. It would not be appropriate to commission academic research on this matter.