asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why Thomas Wisbey, a prisoner in the maximum security wing at Durham gaol, who is locked in his cell from 3 p.m. daily until 9 a.m. the next morning, is not allowed to have a radio set.

Wisbey is not locked in his cell from 3 p.m. to 9 a.m. He works from 9 a.m. until 4.55 p.m. on five weekdays, with a break of about an hour and three quarters, when he takes his midday meal in his cell, and he has association —including television and other recreations—on two weekdays from 5.50 p.m. to 8 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.Like all prisoners in the early stages of a long sentence he is not entitled to a personal radio but my right hon. and learned Friend is reconsidering the position.