§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration has been given to supplying £10 phone cards in prison to enable foreign visitors to make calls overseas; and which prisons currently allow free phone calls by foreign prisoners to their families.
§ Mr. Peter LloydPrisoners may purchase from earnings or private cash a minimum of two £2 or £4 phonecards a week. Consideration will be given to the need for £10 phonecards in the light of demand.
Governors have discretion to enable foreign visitors to phone home or allow incoming or reverse calls on official lines.
Information about those prisons that currently allow free phone calls by foreign prisoners to their families is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.