§ Mr. EtheringtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by prison establishment, year by year, the total number of individual prison visits to prisoners, and the total number of visits by hon. Members, for each year since 1989.
§ Mr. Peter LloydI will write to the hon. Member.
§ Mr. EtheringtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list by category of establishment the total number of prisons which, for the purposes of examination of clothing and baggage, do not have or use(a) X-ray machines or (b) metal detectors;
(2) if he will list the total number of incidents in each year since 1989, where visitors to prisons have had weapons or other unsuitable metallic items (a) found on their person and (b) confiscated;
(3) if he will place in the Library a copy of the procedures governing searches for visitors to prison establishments.
§ Mr. Peter LloydI will write to the hon. Member.