HC Deb 24 January 1992 vol 202 cc362-3W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if prison inmates in privately-run prisons will be able to petition against governor's adjudications in such prisons; to whom they will make their application; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

Disciplinary proceedings at privately-run prisons will be the responsibility of the on-site controller, a crown servant. Inmates will be able to appeal to the head of the remands contracts unit, a division in prison service headquarters, against an adjudication.

Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will require privately run prisons to produce annual reports; to whom those reports will be sent; and who will be able to take action upon recommendations made in such a report.

Mrs. Rumbold

Private contractors who are responsible for managing prisons will not be required to produce an annual report. Instead they will have to provide regular management information to the on-site controller, a crown servant who will be monitoring their performance to ensure that they comply with the terms of the contract.