§ 63. Mr. A. Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the fact that there is need for land for house building in London, if he will relinquish to the local authorities concerned Her Majesty's prisons at Pentonville, Holloway, Wormwood Scrubs, Wandsworth and Brixton and arrange for new detention centres to be built, or ex-Army camps taken over, for this purpose outside the big towns and cities.
§ Mr. BrookeMy immediate aim is to eliminate overcrowding in prisons. Good progress is being made, but until this has been accomplished it will not be possible to consider relinquishing existing prisons.