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Prisoners (Letters To Members)

Volume 895: debated on Wednesday 16 July 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether he has yet completed his review of the circumstances in which prison authorities are authorised to refuse permission to prisoners on remand in Her Majesty's prisons to write to their own or any other Member of Parliament;(2) whether he has made any new arrangements for prisoners on remand in Her Majesty's prisons to be able to write to their own or any other Member of Parliament; and if he will make a statement.

The review I announced on 19th June in reply to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Cartwright) is not yet complete.—[Vol. 893, c. 1645–47.]