HC Deb 01 November 1988 vol 139 c576W
Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give details of the number of body searches, cell searches and cell changes and strip searches carried out on each of the category A prisoners being held at Her Majesty's prison, Durham, monthly since May.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

I refer the hon. Member to replies given to his questions on 20 July 1987, columns56–57, as to the practice relating to body searches, cell searches and cell changes, and 14 June 1988, at columns 95–96, 29 July 1988, at columns 760–61, and 19 October 1988, at columns 881–82, as to the number of strip searches.