§ Lord Balnielasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many straitjackets are made each year in the workshops of Her Majesty's Prisons; and to which mental institutions they are supplied.
§ Miss BaconSince 1961, 102 loose canvas restraint jackets have been manufactured in prison workshops, of which 48 were used to supply new prison service establishments and 54 to renew stocks at existing establishments. None was supplied to institutions outside the prison service.