HC Deb 27 April 1978 vol 948 cc635-6W
Mr. Kenneth Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is satisfied with the present accommodation provided for prison officers.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

Prison service staff quarters have been acquired over many decades and differ widely in age, type and construction, so that their quality inevitably varies despite continuous programmes of maintenance and repair. It is my aim, in close consultation with the staff associations, to devise arrangements which both provide satisfactory accommodation for staff who wish to live in official quarters and recognise the wishes of those who prefer to live in their own homes.