§ Mr. Stephen Rossasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, further to the reply to the hon. Member for Isle of Wight, dated 29 October, Official Report, c. 414, he is now able to publish the outcome of his review of the question of whether prisoners should be allowed to change their names by deed poll; and whether any decision has been reached on the request to do so by David J. Cheesman, an inmate at Parkhurst.
§ Mr. MayhewThe review is now complete and an instruction is being prepared for governors and wardens of all Prison Department establishments which will allow prisoners to change their names, subject to their continuing to be known during the currency of their sentence by the name in which they were committed to prison. This will apply to Mr. Cheesman.