§ Mr. McKibbinasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make arrangements for a prisoner, of Northern Ireland domicile, who is serving a sentence of ten years preventive detention in Her Majesty's Prison, Nottingham, and who has served four years of his sentence with good conduct, about whom he has been informed by the hon. Member for Belfast, East, to be transferred for a month to a Belfast prison, so that he may be visited by members of his family, as similar arrangements are made for Scottish and Welsh born prisoners held in English prisons.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerI have no power to transfer prisoners detained in England and Wales to a prison in Northern Ireland. I will consider, in consultation with the Government of Northern Ireland, the possibility of making provision for such transfers when a suitable opportunity occurs.