HC Deb 14 June 1990 vol 174 c315W
32. Mr. Burns

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to accelerate the ending of slopping out in prisons.

89. Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to speed up action to provide access to sanitation in prisons to enable the procedure of slopping out in British prisons to be phased out by the year 2000.

94. Mr. Andrew MacKay

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to accelerate the ending of slopping out in prisons.

Mr. Mellor

I refer the hon. Members to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) on 3 May 1990 at column659.

35. Mr. Rathbone

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what submissions he has received recently about the state of prisons in England.

Mr. Mellor

The Home Office receives numerous communications about the state of prisons. These vary considerably in content from an individual's problem to more general concerns.

82. Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will next meet the chairman of the Prison Officers Association to discuss prison regimes.

Mr. Mellor

My right hon. and learned Friend has no plans at this stage to meet the chairman of the Prison Officers Association to discuss prison regimes, but should a request be made he will give the matter urgent consideration.