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Mr. Squire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current ratio of prisoners to prison officers; and what it was in 1979.
Mr. Mellor
[pursuant to his answer, 12 July, 1990, c. 320]: The officer to inmate ratio on 1 June 1990 should read 1:2ยท201.