HC Deb 15 February 1996 vol 271 c699W
Mr. Booth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the ways prisoners can compensate the victims of crime. [13868]

Miss Widdecombe

The Government are committed to the introduction of arrangements whereby a proportion of prisoners' earnings from prison work is set aside to help victims of crime. I congratulate my hon. Friend on obtaining a Second Reading for his private Member's Bill last Friday which provides a statutory framework for this purpose.