§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Macclesfield on 18 December last, Official Report, c. 369–70, what are the special factors which require the employment of 130 staff at Bullwood Hall borstal establishment to control 131 inmates.
§ Mr. MayhewBullwood Hall caters for a significant proportion of disturbed girls who require a higher degree of care and closer supervision than other borstal trainees. We are not, however, satisfied that the present shift system in use at Bullwood Hall necessarily enables the best use to be made of available manpower. One of the Government's objectives in negotiating with the Prison Officers Association a new duty system is to enable the best use to be made of the available staff resources in different kinds of prison establishments.