§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions since January 1990 inmates in HMP Holloway have been kept in bodybelts for more than 12 hours. [8420]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
789WLetter from A. J. Butler to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 17 January 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question asking on how many occasions since January 1990 inmates in Holloway prison have been kept in bodybelts for more than 12 hours.There are no occasions where a prisoner has been kept in a bodybelt in Holloway prison for more than 12 hours since 1990.