§ Mr. Lubbockasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many radio sets were in the possession of long-term prisoners at the latest convenient date; how many prisoners bought a licence with their own money, following the recent decision to charge individual licence fees to prisoners; how many received money from relatives or friends to pay licence fees; how many turned in their sets; and how many are saving to pay the licence fee out of their earnings.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsOn 29th July, 512 prisoners in central and regional prisons held licensed radio sets. 25 prisoners had not bought licences and their sets had been sent home or put with their property. It is not possible to distinguish between money sent to prisoners for their licences and money sent to them for general use in canteens. I cannot say how many of the 25 prisoners who gave up using their sets are saving up to buy a licence.