§ Mr. BerminghamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many sentenced female prisoners in England and Wales were given bail or weekend leave to visit dependent children during 1992; and what is the method of financing such visits.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe statistical information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
The financial arrangements governing the grant of temporary release to those prisoners eligible under prison rule 6 are set out in circular instructions 36/89 and 43/92, copies of which are in the Library. There is no provision for assisting financially sentenced prisoners released by the courts on bail.