§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to set out minimum specifications for special cells, protected rooms and stripped rooms in Her Majesty's prisons and safeguards governing their use.
§ Mr. MellorSpecifications for construction of cells and special rooms in segregation and punishment blocks and in hospitals are set out in the relevant volumes of the Treasury-approved briefing guides.
We are considering, in the light of comments made by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons in his annual report for 1982, whether further safeguards governing the use of special cells, protected rooms and stripped rooms should be introduced.