HC Deb 12 March 1997 vol 292 c210W
Sir Ivan Lawrence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to announce the membership of the proposed Prison Service advisory board.[19041]

Miss Widdecombe

[holding answer 11 March 1997]: Plans for the advisory board are well advanced, but my right hon. and learned Friend has decided to defer the establishment of the board until the outcome of the director general's review of the organisation and management of the Prison Service is known.