§ 54. Mr. John Hallasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to ensure that persons convicted of crimes causing loss or damage which can be assessed in monetary terms should be required to make good that loss or damage, in whole or in part, and that industries should be established in prisons on a commercial and unsubsidised basis paying trade union and market rates to employed prisoners, thus enabling them to make payments to their victims and contribute to the cost of prison maintenance.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsAs I stated on 25th November last in reply to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Accrington (Mr. Arthur Davidson), I have referred the question of reparation by the offender to the Advisory Council on the Penal System. The question of legislation on this matter will be considered in the light of the Council's recommendations.
The Government's policy with respect to prison industries and prisoners' earnings is set out in paragraph 23 of the White Paper "The Adult Offender" published in December, 1965.—[Vol. 736, c. 377.]