HC Deb 09 November 1992 vol 213 c631W
Ms. Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what advice his Department has issued on the handling of prisoners' mail; to what extent the handling of mail is a matter for the discretion of the governor of each individual prison; and if he will set out the grounds on which mail may be withheld from prisoners.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Guidance to governors on the handling of prisoners' correspondence is set out in standing order 5 and circular instruction 10/1991, copies of which are in the Library.