HC Deb 05 February 1981 vol 998 c162W
19. Mr. J. Enoch Powell

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now extend to the prisons in England and Wales the humanitarian reforms recently introduced in Ulster.

Mr. Whitelaw

There are, at present, no plans to extend to prisons in England and Wales the arrangements that have been made in Northern Ireland, but developments in Northern Ireland will be studied to see whether there are any lessons to be learnt.