§ 20. Mr. Warbeyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will inquire into the circumstances in which information regarding the contents of correspondence between his Department and the hon. Member for Ashfield was conveyed to the prisoner who was the subject of that correspondence; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. BrookeI have made careful inquiries, and no information regarding the contents of correspondence between my Department and the hon. Member for Ashfield has been conveyed by the Department to the prisoner. Since this Question was put down I have received a letter from the hon. Member to which I shall be replying in detail.
§ 21. Mr. Warbeyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent advice he has given to prison governors on the interpretation of the Prison Standing Orders governing correspondence between prisoners and Members of Parliament.
§ Mr. BrookeNo recent general advice has been given, but when Governors are in doubt whether a particular letter to a Member of Parliament should be stopped they ask for instructions about that letter.