§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why Miss Pat Arrowsmith at present detained 94W in Holloway Prison, on a six-months sentence and who has now been in prison for five months has not received the usual remission of sentence; and if he will now order her release.
§ Mr. CallaghanMiss Arrowsmith is now detained in Holloway Prison for failing to comply with an order to enter into a recognisance to keep the peace and to be of good behaviour; she can obtain her release at any time by complying with the order, and she is not, therefore, eligible for normal remission under the Statutory Prison Rules. For assistance which she has recently given to the prison authorities, however, I have recommended special remission which will bring forward her latest date of release by seven days. I cannot find grounds for any other action.