To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he intends to take to prevent the holding of press conferences by, and the sound or television broadcasting of, interviews with persons detained, following conviction, in Her Majesty's prisons; and if he will make a statement.

Media interviews with prisoners about their individual cases are not permitted. We are reviewing our procedures to try to ensure that, when the media are invited into establishments for a particular purpose, unauthorised interviews do not take place.