§ Sir John WheelerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish a statement of the annual objectives of the prison service and of the resources provided for it.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeI am placing in the Library a copy of the "Statement of Objectives and Resources for HM Prison Service, 1992–93", which is being issued today.
The statement forms the "compact" between Ministers and the Director General of the prison service recommended by Lord Justice Woolf. It sets out the prison service's purpose and goals, the planning assumptions and resources for 1992–93 and the service's objectives, targets and performance indicators.
It was announced in March 1992 that it was intended that the prison service should become an executive agency on 1 April 1993. The framework document and corporate and business plans for the agency will succeed the present statement from 1993–94 onwards.