§ Mrs. Peacockasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement upon the escape of Robert Mills, a prisoner at Maidstone prison, from a charity fete on 17 July.
§ Mr. HurdRobert Mills was one of three prisoners who formed a working party to help at a charity fete on 17 July at Mote House Cheshire Home: at the end of the afternoon he failed to report to prison officers at the fete as he had been ordered, and the police were informed that 825W he had absconded. As Mr. Mills had been placed in the lowest security category he was not required to be continuously escorted.