§ Mr. Stallardasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive the report of the committee of inquiry into the prison services in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesMr. Justice May, the chairman of the committee of inquiry into the United Kingdom prison services, informs me that, because of the 183W number and complexity of the problems facing the prison services which have become apparent to the committee during an intensive programme of visits to all types of prison establishments throughout the United Kingdom, and which have been extended and amplified in the large amount of evidence already submitted to the Committee, it will not be possible for the inquiry to do full justice to the task which it has undertaken in time to report by March. The committee hopes to report in the summer.