HC Deb 25 November 1985 vol 87 cc386-7W
Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many baths, showers and toilets are available to prisoners in Liverpool prison; how many baths or showers each prisoner is allowed per week; and how many changes of clothes each prisoner is allowed per week.

Mr. Mellor

Liverpool prison currently has available to inmates a total of 18 baths, 66 showers, 131 WCs and 136 urinals. Each prisoner is normally allowed one bath or shower per week and an additional shower when they make use of the gymnasium. In addition, prisoners employed on jobs that are of a physically dirty nature have a shower each day.

Prisoners at Liverpool have one change of clothes per week consisting of one shirt, one pair of socks, one pair of underpants and one vest. Overclothing is changed as necessary. In addition, one towel, one sheet and one pillow-case are changed weekly.

Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many square feet of exercise space are available to prisoners in Liverpool prison.

Mr. Mellor

Forty thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight sq ft in exercise yards, 109,620 sq ft in the grassed area, and 8,964 sq ft in the gymnasia.