§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether a prisoner may ask for an inspection visit to a prison by the Health and Safety Executive in order to investigate a possible health and safety hazard or other problem; what matters a prisoner is permitted to raise with the Health and Safety Executive; what procedure a prisoner who wishes to contact the Health and Safety Executive should adopt; and whether the same rules apply to such a communication as apply to letters between prisoners and their solicitors on legal matters.
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§ Mr. MellorInspectors from the Health and Safety Executive have the right of access and pay regular visits to Prison Department establishments. Once an inmate had raised his complaint through the prescribed internal channels it would be open to him to write to the Health and Safety Executive to ask that it investigate an aspect of his imprisonment. It would be for the Health and Safety Executive to decide whether or not the matter was within its remit and what action to take. A prisoner's correspondence with the Health and Safety Executive would be examined and read by prison staff in accordance with standing order No. 5, which is published and a copy of which is in the Library.