HC Deb 21 April 1994 vol 241 c639W
23. Mr. Mackinlay

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will review the arrangements by which convicted prisoners give interviews while in prison.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Prison Service standing order 5A 37 states that visits to inmates by journalists or authors in their professionnal capacity should in general not be allowed. My right hon. and learned Friend has no intention of changing these arrangements.