§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to the letters of the director general to the hon. Member for Don Valley dated 24 and 26 October, on what basis Mr. Richard Tilt is authorised to sign himself as Director General of the Prison Service; and if he will make a statement. [53]
§ Miss WiddecombeOn the basis that, my right hon. and learned Friend, as he told the House on 16 October, has asked Mr. Tilt to take over temporarily as director general until a substantive appointment is made.
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§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the 137 full submissions referred to in the letter of resignation of Mr. Derek Lewis, the former Director General of the Prison Service, which the Prison Service was required to submit to his Department between October 1994 and January 1995, together with the name of the addressees; and if he will make a statement. [56]
§ Miss WiddecombeI refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) on 26 October,Official Report column 759.