HC Deb 24 July 1974 vol 877 cc491-2W
Mr. Tom Ellis

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the control units for intractable prisoners, referred to in his predecessor's statement of 11th May 1973, are to come into operation.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

The control unit at Wakefield is to open, on an experimental basis, on 1st August 1974. No date has yet been fixed for the opening of the unit at Wormwood Scrubs.