Departments: Domestic Visits

Mrs. Gillan
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what visits have been made by Wales Office Ministers to Welsh prisons; and what the dates of such visits were in the last 12 months.

Mr. Hain
Prisons in Wales are the responsibility of the Ministry for Justice. Neither myself nor the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales has visited a Welsh prison in the last 12 months, but we have had discussions with ministerial colleagues about prison issues in Wales.