§ 72. Mr. Remnantasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what limits are placed on the letters which can be written by convicted persons to their Members of Parliament while serving their sentences in Her Majesty's Prisons.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgePrisoners may use letters from their ordinary allowance to write to a Member of Parliament of their choice, and special letters are permitted in certain conditions, but some limitations are imposed in the interests of good order and discipline. In particular, a prisoner may not make complaints about his treatment in prison in a letter to a Member unless he has already exercised his right of making the complaints through one of the appointed channels for the consideration and redress of such grievances.