HC Deb 18 February 1981 vol 999 cc126-7W
Mr. Soley

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department which prison department establishments do not allow domestic visits to inmates on Saturdays and Sundays.

Mr. Mayhew

Only Ashford remand centre allows visits on neither Saturdays nor Sundays. Saturday visits are permitted by every other establishment, although at Canterbury not to unconvicted prisoners. No Sunday visits are permitted in 18 of these establishments—Aldington, Bedford, Birmingham, Brixton, Brockhill, Campsfield House, Dorchester, Eastwood Park, Exeter, Foston Hall, Latchmere House, Lincoln, Pucklechurch, Shrewsbury, Styal, Swansea, Thorp Arch and Usk; some others limit Sunday visits to certain classes of inmate.