§ Mr. Andrew Smithasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the number of random hygiene inspections of prison kitchens made by Government environmental health officers in each of the last five years, indicating the percentage of total prison kitchens which each figure represents;
(2) if he will list the number of occasions in each of the last five years when, as a result of random hygiene inspections, kitchen standards were found to be below the standard elsewhere applied through the Food Hygiene (General) Regulation 1970; and which prisons were involved.
§ Mr. John PattenThe arrangement for environmental health officers from the Department of Health and Social Security to conduct random hygiene inspections of prison kitchens was introduced only last year. A five-year profile cannot yet be provided.
§ Mr. Andrew Smithasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Government will take steps to secure the removal of Crown immunity of prison kitchens from inspection by local authority environmental health officers; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. John PattenThe prison service has its own internal arrangements for inspecting prison kitchens and there are no plans to make far-reaching changes. Inspections are considered to be of a standard equivalent to those that
Proportion of persons initially received into Prison Department establishments in England and Wales as untried prisoners in 1985 and 1986 who were known to have been found not guilty or not proceeded against: by ethnic origin Percentage Ethnic origin Year of receptions White West Indian Guyanese African Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Chinese Arab Mixed origin Other, not recorded (including refusals) All persons 1985 3.6 7.4 6.3 4.8 5.8 4.1 19861 3.9 7.5 7.2 6.8 4.2 4.4 1 Provisional.