§ Colonel DAYasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that adult elementary classes are now being held in the evening for adult persons in His Majesty's prisons at all save four of the local prisons; whether this part of prison reform will be 628W extended to the four local prisons not at present covered; and how such teachers and advisers are being paid and, if from public funds, what is the amount of remuneration they receive?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThe information available on this subject will be found on pages 18 and 19 of the Commissioners' Annual Report for 1922–23, and on pages 17 and 18 of that for 1923–24. Extension of the adult education scheme to the remaining prisons depends on finding educational advisers and teachers. The whole work is on a voluntary basis. Neither educational advisers nor teachers under the adult education scheme receive any remuneration from prison funds.