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Mr. Lawrence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposals he has for rewarding prisoners who work with remission of time served.
Mrs. Rumbold
The Woolf report suggested that the prison service should consider, as part of its review of prisoners' pay, the option of linking the amount a prisoner earns to earlier release or an earlier date for parole review. The White Paper, to be published later this year, will contain our response to the Woolf inquiry's proposals on prisoners' pay.