§ 58. Mr. Teelingasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why Mr. Geoffrey C. Taylor, 226, Ditchling Road, Brighton, now serving a sentence in Leyhill Prison, near Bristol, has been forbidden to communicate with his Member of Parliament by the prison Governor until he has first petitioned the Home Secretary; and, in view of the fact that it is the custom that all prisoners may contact their Members of Parliament, what instructions on this subject are issued to prison governors.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgeI am afraid that a mistake was made in this case and I am 197W sorry if my hon. Friend has been inconvenienced. Prisoners must first make any complaints they have about prison treatment through one of the channels appointed for the consideration and redress of prisoners' gievances, but the representations which this prisoner wished to put to my hon. Friend were not in this category and he should have been allowed to write. I am taking steps to prevent any repetition of this mistake.