§ Mr. Stonehouseasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements he is making for unconvicted prisoners awaiting trial to have communal recreation rooms and facilities for association.
§ Dr. SummerskillUnconvicted prisoners awaiting trial are held in local prisons or remand centres. The remand centres which hold about a third of the total number of prisoners in this category generally have reasonably adequate facilities for association and recreation.234W Physical conditions in the overcrowded local prisons make it more difficult to provide these facilities, but improvements are being introduced where this is practicable and as funds are available.