§ Mr. Powellasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what circumstances prisoners in Her Majesty's prisons are permitted to correspond in German with addresses in the German Democratic Republic.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsPrisoners may correspond in foreign languages with addresses abroad—including East Germany—only when correspondence cannot be satisfactorily carried out in English. Outgoing and incoming letters in foreign languages are translated into English and are subject to the same control as those in English.