HC Deb 21 May 1981 vol 5 cc123-4W
Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in the light of recent findings in Birmingham prison, he will seek to require boards of visitors to satisfy themselves that prison hospital occurrence books and other records are correctly filled in.

Mr. Mayhew

Boards of visitors have a general duty under the prison rules to satisfy themselves about the administration of the prison. We shall consider what action is necessary to meet the criticism of certain administrative procedures expressed during the inquest into the death of Barry Prosser when we have received the coroner's recommendations.