§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by(a) region and (b) Her Majesty's prison establishment the average weekly cost of providing meals for inmates.
§ Mrs. RumboldIn 1989–90, the-latest figures available, the average weekly cost of providing meals for inmates was as follows:—
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Table (a) Region Cost £ South-East 14.50 Midland 13.69 North 14.02 South-West 13.94
§ Mr. John PattenMr. Wilson has not been released. His case will be referred to the local review committee at the prison where he is then detained in October this year as the first stage of a further review by the parole board.
The European Court of Human Rights upheld Mr. Wilson's claim of a breach of article 5 of the European convention on human rights in that he did not have recourse to a judicial body capable of determining the lawfulness of his detention and ordering his release if that detention was unlawful. However, the court also indicated, in rejecting his claim for damages, that there was no evidence that he would have regained his freedom had procedures consistent with the convention been available to him. We have no proposals to offer him compensation.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his Department has any plans to extend the decision of the European Court of Human Rights on 25 October 1990 in respect of Benjamin Wilson, who was serving a discretionary life sentence, to people serving mandatory life sentences.
§ Mr. John PattenNo.