§ Mr. Roy HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will reconsider the decision to develop additional accommodation at the police training centre at Ryton rather than at the district police training centre at Cwmbran.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe Police Training Council, whose membership includes representatives of the police service, local authorities and the Home Office, unanimously agreed at its meeting on 17 November, inter alia, that Ryton police district training centre should be the main site for the provision of additional police probationer training places. We do not propose to reconsider that decision. Some redevelopment at Cwmbran is currently under way to provide an additional 39 training places.
§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to improve the staffing levels at Wakefield prison in order to enable the Wednesday communion service to be reintroduced, and to enable category A prisoners to attend the service in the prison chapel on Sunday evenings.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe governor and chaplaincy can offer a full programme of religious activities, including a monthly Wednesday communion service. Providing extra discipline officers to allow category A prisoners to attend chapel twice on Sunday would be disproportionately costly.