HC Deb 30 April 1990 vol 171 cc394-5W
Mr. Stern

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the recent prison disturbances.

Mr. Mellor

My hon. Friend will understand that following the statement made by my right hon. and learned Friend in the House on 26 April at the conclusion of the disturbances at Manchester prison, it would now be appropriate to await the outcome of Lord Justice Woolf's inquiry into the disturbances before seeking to draw conclusions.

In the meantime, however, as was explained to the House last week, my right hon. and learned Friend is taking urgent action in a number of areas to reduce the possibility of a repeat of the appalling events of the last few weeks.