HC Deb 16 July 1991 vol 195 c118W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the timetable for full implementation of each of the measures announced in his statement on 25 February following publication of the Woolf report on prison disturbances.

Mrs. Rumbold

My right hon. Friend's response to the Woolf report, in the form of a White Paper on the future direction of the prison service in England and Wales, will review the progress of all the measures referred to in his statement of 25 February. The extension of arrangements for financially assisted visits was introduced on 1 April; opportunities for home leve were increased from 7 May; the abolition of routine censorship in all except dispersal prisons came into force on 16 May; the increase in the level of visits for convicted prisoners took effect from 17 June; and the programme for installing cardphones in all establishments which do not already have them is scheduled to be completed in May 1992.

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