Written question asked by Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 1 November 1993. It was answered by Peter Lloyd (Conservative) on Monday, 1 November 1993 on behalf of the Home Office.

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Home Office;Prison Service

Question

If he will comment on the role of voluntary family support groups in respect of the enhancement of family-prisoner links and the successful resettlement of prisoners on release; how much money & what proportion of the prison service budget was allocated in 1991, 1992 & 1993 to fund prisoners families support groups. - Text of letter from Derek Lewis of Prison Service. - Inc figure.

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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

231 c13W

Session

1992-93

Subjects

Central government Families Grants Prisoners Prisons Prisoners' release Voluntary work Visits

Contains statistics

Yes