HC Deb 20 May 1998 vol 312 cc383-4W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects to receive the Fairweather/Skinner report on "Women in Jail"; and if he will make a statement. [42124]

Mr. McLeish

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Mr. Browne) on 13 May 1998,Official Report, column 131. The high level steering group which will be set up to direct the work of the inter-agency project on women's offending in the Glasgow area will be chaired by Professor Sheila McLean of Glasgow University.