§ Mr. SternTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to increase the freedom of prison officers to arrange their own rented living accommodation.
§ Mr. John PattenPrison officers have had freedom to arrange their own accommodation since 1979. A package of changes in pay and working practices now being introduced in the prison service, which is known as fresh start, provides for prison officers who live in quarters to buy them at a discounted price.