HC Deb 03 December 1980 vol 995 c104W
Dr. Mawhinney

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many letters were sent by prisoners, in each of the last five years, whose postage was paid for out of public funds.

Mr. Brittan

Convicted prisoners are permitted to send one letter a week at public expense and occasionally, when a governor considers it justified, a special letter, but the total number sent in a year by prisoners is not known.