§ 90. Mr. Haleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state, for the 12 months to the most recent convenient date, the average weekly wage paid to adult male and female prisoners engaged in prison work.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerIn 1957, the average weekly earnings of men prisoners was 2s. 6d. and of women prisoners 1s. 11d.
§ 91. Mr. Haleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state, for the most recent convenient date, the normal prison accommodation for adult prisoners and the actual number of prisoners accommodated showing the number accommodated at three or more in a cell.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerIn prisons of all types the total normal accommodation amounts to 17,098 places for men and184W 1,217 for women. On 14th January, 1958, there were 18,470 men and 676 women. In the local cellular prisons for men there are 10,803 places and on 14th January, there were in those prisons 13,179 men of whom 3,774 were lodged three in a cell. No women are lodged three in a cell.
§ Mr. Haleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of prisoners in prison for the last 12 months to the most recent convenient date in default of payment of fine, showing the number who were not allowed time in which to pay the fine imposed.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerIn 1956, of 4,796 persons received into prison for failure to pay fines, 2,426 had not been given time to pay.