§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will postpone the implementation of the management structure review of the prison service pending Lord Justice Woolf s report on the riots in Strangeways.
§ Mr. MellorMy right hon. and learned Friend announced on 11 January that changes to the organisation of the prison service would be made at the end of September along the lines recommended last August in the report of a study by a joint PA Consulting Group and prison service team. The work needed to give effect to those changes is on course. My right hon. and learned Friend received a request from the Prison Governors Association on 3 April that the reorganisation should be reconsidered in the light of the Manchester riot and he will respond to the association shortly.