§ Mr. Dubsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will recommend that boards of visitors should prepare annual reports of their work and make them generally available.
§ Mr. MellorRule 97 of the prison rules 1964 (and corresponding youth custody and detention centre Rules) requires every board of visitors to make an annual report to the Secretary of State at the end of each year. There are no plans to make these reports generally available but boards who wish to publish an annual account of their work are encouraged to do so.
§ Mr. Dubsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department which boards of visitors publish annual reports.
§ Mr. MellorThere is no formal provision for publication of the annual reports which boards make to the Secretary of State.