HL Deb 16 April 1996 vol 571 cc66-7WA
Lord Avebury

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will either organise a World Wide Web page of their own for Prison Standing Orders or provide the material by e-mail to The Penal Lexicon for inclusion on their page.

The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Blatch)

Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter to Lord Avebury from the Director of Operations, North, of the Prison Service, Mr. Alastair Papps, dated 16th April 1996.

Lady Blatch has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about prison standing orders being placed on the World Wide Web.

The Government do have plans, administered by the Central Computer Telecommunication Agency, to provide access to government material by the World Wide Web. The Prison Service is a contributor to that initiative and we have plans to make more information available by this medium as time and resources permit.

Due to other programmes it is unlikely that access to the material requested will be available in the near future.