HC Deb 18 June 1992 vol 209 c651W
Miss Emma Nicholson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends that prison governors will he allowed to have full, or substantial, control over their budgets.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

We are currently considering how the present financial delegations to governors might be extended. Our aim is to introduce any changes on or as soon as possible after the prison service becomes an agency in April 1993.