§ 77. Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state(a) the finance and (b) the profit or loss of Prindus in the latest available year.
§ Mr. MellorPrindus was a trading name used by the directorate of industries and farms. The directorate has been superseded by Prison Service Industries and Farms and the trading name has not been used for some years. This House voted finance for prison service industries and farms for the year ending 31 March 1990 in the sum of £20,250,016. Provisional trading results for that year have been published in paragraphs 87 and 88 of the report on the work of the prison service April 1988-March 1989 which has been placed in the Library. The net operating cost of PSIF for 1988–89 was £18.1 million.