§ Mr. BRIANTasked the Home Secretary if he will appoint at an early date a woman commissioner with power to make representations on the administrative side of all prisons and Borstal institutions, and with a special view to initiating reforms in female prisons and in the Borstal institution at Aylesbury?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI am sorry that I cannot adopt this suggestion. The work of the Prison Commissioners is too heavy to make it possible to replace any of them by a woman without administrative experience of prisons, and to add a paid woman would involve an expenditure which could not be justified.