HC Deb 07 July 1978 vol 953 cc315-7W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will publish in the Official Report the biographical details and qualifications of the members of the Advisory Council on the Penal System; what salary and expenses each of them received from public funds; and what was the cost of the report of this Council, including expenses of the members, since its inception.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

The members of the Advisory Council on the Penal System who took part—in some cases for only part of the time—in its recent review of maximum sentences of imprisonment are listed on page (iii) of the council's report, and are as follows:

  • The Rt. Hon. Sir Kenneth Younger, K.B.E.: chairman of the council until his death in
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  • May 1976; former Minister of State at the Home Office.
  • The Baroness Serota of Hampstead, J.P.: chairman of the council since May 1976; chairman, Commission for Local Administration; Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Security 1968–1970.
  • Professor Sir Arthur Armitage: Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester; an academic lawyer.
  • Mr. Alan Bainton, C.B.E.: formerly controller of operations in the prison department of the Home Office and a former prison governor.
  • Mr. Louis Blom-Cooper, Q.C., J.P.: chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform; a barrister.
  • Mr. Justice Stephen Brown: a High Court judge; presiding judge of the Midland circuit.
  • Mr. Derek Gladwin, O.B.E., J.P.: southern regional secretary of the General and Municipal Workers' Union; a lay magistrate.
  • Mr. A. Goodson, O.B.E., Q.P.M.: chief constable of Leicestershire.
  • Mr. Milton Hargreaves, O.B.E.: clerk to the South Bedfordshire justices.
  • Judge Hines, Q.C.: a circuit judge who has served for several years at the Central Criminal Court; formerly chairman of the Inner London and the Middlesex Quarter Session.
  • The Rt. Hon. The Earl Jellicoe, D.S.O., M.C.: formerly Lord Privy Seal.
  • Judge Richard Lowry, Q.C.: a circuit judge.
  • The Lady Rothschild, M.B.E., J.P.: a lay magistrate.
  • Mr. Hugh Sanders, O.B.E.: formerly chief probation officer of South Yorkshire.
  • Dr. Peter Scott, C.B.E.: until his death consultant psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley hospitals.
  • Mr. W. R. Stirling: until recently principal of the Bingley college of education, South Yorkshire.
  • Professor Nigel Walker: Wolfson professor of criminology at Cambridge University and director of the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge.
  • Lord Justice Waller, O.B.E.: a lord justice of appeal; formerly a presiding judge.
  • The Baroness Wootton of Abinger, C.H.: a deputy speaker of the House of Lords; formerly professor of social studies in the University of London.

The members of the Advisory Council are unpaid. They receive expenses incurred as a direct consequence of their membership of the council. The estimated cost of preparing the council's latest report and the interim report on "The Length of Prison Sentences", which was published in June 1977, is £62,000. Of this, £3,400 is attributable to members' expenses, £10,500 to the cost of printing and publication, and the remainder to staff costs.