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Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what provision is made for prisoners held on remand to complain as to the conditions under which they are kept; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Douglas Hogg
Remand prisoners in prison custody may make complaints about conditions in the following ways:
- by speaking to supervising prison staff;
- by applying to see the governor, chaplain, medical officer, education officer or welfare officer;
- by applying to see the board of visitors or a visiting member of the board;
- by applying to see a visiting officer of the Secretary of State;
- by petition to the Secretary of State, to Parliament or to Her Majesty The Queen;
- by writing to a Member of Parliament;
- by writing to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, directly or through a Member of Parliament;
- by petition to the European Commission of Human Rights.