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Mr. Leigh
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether category C prisoners will be required to pay the community charge.
Mr. Douglas Hogg
This is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, but I understand that the Local Government Finance Bill exempts all sentenced prisoners, except for rates, community charge and fine defaulters, from paying the community charge.