HC Deb 21 January 1994 vol 235 cc919-20W
Mr. Hanson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to allow homosexual partners to benefit from the assisted prison visits scheme on similar terms to other partners.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The current assisted prison visits scheme is designed to help prisoners maintain their family ties by paying towards the costs of visits made by their close relatives on low incomes. Under the scheme, close relatives are defined as spouses, children, siblings and partners of prisoners. A partner is defined as a person of the opposite sex who was living with the prisoner for at least

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four months before imprisonment, or who has a child from the relationship. Consequently, homosexual partners of prisoners do not qualify for assisted visits, although consideration is being given to whether the scheme should be extended.

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