§ Mr. BeithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the dates of publication for each board of visitors annual report for 1996 and(a) each privately managed prison and (b) each publicly managed prison; and if he will make a statement. [18086]
§ Ms QuinEach Board of Visitors has a statutory duty under Prison Rule 97 to report annually to the Home Secretary on the state of the prison and its administration and include advice and suggestions as they consider appropriate.
Boards of Visitors Annual Reports are not published documents. They are made to the Secretary of State who permits the Board to publish their Annual Report, if they wish, subject to allowing a period of notice to elapse before publication and to removal of any material which is confidential.
Fifty Boards have published their 1996 Annual Reports. The Boards and the publication dates of their Reports are as follows:
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Board Publication date Privately managed prisons Blakenhurst December 1996 Wolds April 1997 Publicly managed prisons Aldington January 1997 Askham Grange February 1997 Bedford May 1997 Belmarsh February 1997 Blantyre House February 1997 Blundeston April 1997 Bristol February 1997 Brixton May 1997 Bullwood Hall January 1997 Channings Wood February 1997 Chelmsford January 1997
Board Publication date Dartmoor January 1997 Deerbolt January 1997 Downview March 1997 Drake Hall January 1997 Erlestoke January 1997 Exeter January 1997 Feltham March 1997 Ford February 1997 Full Sutton January 1997 Guys Marsh February 1997 Haslar January 1997 High Down February 1997 Highpoint August 1997 Hollesley Bay May 1997 Holloway April 1997 Hull January 1997 Huntercombe May 1997 Kingston April 1997 Kirkham January 1997 Lancaster Farms February 1997 The Mount April 1997 Northallerton January 1997 Norwich April 1997 Nottingham April 1997 Pentonville April 1997 Preston January 1997 Send January 1997 Swaleside March 1997 Swansea May 1997 The Verne April 1997 Wandsworth April 1997 Wayland August 1997 Wetherby May 1997 Whatton August 1997 Whitemoor February 1997 Winchester March 1997