§ 70. Mr. Bishopasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action he is taking to improve prison conditions, and particularly to abolish the use of chamber pots and the practice of slopping out.
§ Miss BaconThe prison building programme provides for the construction of new prisons suitable for modern methods of treatment and for a wide variety of improvements in existing prisons. My right hon. and learned Friend is particularly anxious to improve night sanitation. This is not at present practicable in existing closed prisons. We are, however, seeking a solution of the problem in prisons that are now being designed.