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Prisoners (Forcible Feeding)

Volume 646: debated on Tuesday 24 October 1961

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52.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give instructions to prison governors in Scotland that no prisoner is to be forcibly fed without his permission.

No. The decision whether a particular prisoner requires to be artificially fed to maintain his health is a purely medical one in which it would not be proper for me to intervene.