§ 29. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state his plans for therapeutic and rehabilitation treatment for persons undergoing terms of imprisonment for criminal offences.
§ Miss BaconMy right hon. Friend's plans include improvements in the classification and allocation of prisoners; improvements in their work and industrial training; further development of a variety of methods of group work; consolidation and improvement of the education programme in all Prison Service establishments; and implementation of the recommendations of the Working Party on the Prison Medical Service. My right hon. 117W Friend proposes also to encourage the constructive use of Prison Service staff of all grades; to extend the use of open prisons, prison hotels and parole; and to develop the arangements of prison welfare and after-care in accordance with the principles set out in the report of his Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders.