§ Mr. KeyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the progress of his AIDS education programme among(a) prison officers and (b) prisoners.
§ Mr. WaddingtonA resource package, "AIDS Inside", designed for prison officers has been in use since August 1987. The package is used in the initial training of new entrant prison officers and in the development training programmes of individual establishments. The target for governors in the present training year (ending 31 March 1990) is to deliver the package to all operational staff who have not received such training in earlier years. Refresher training will begin in 1991–92.
The latest phase of the prisoner education programme began in March 1989 with the introduction of the resource package, "AIDS Inside and Out". Governors have been set a stringent target for 1989–90 of delivering the package (or, failing that, showing the 20-minute video which is the core element of the package) to all willing prisoners who are in custody for four weeks or longer. They have been asked to say how they have progressed in meeting that target in their next annual report.