Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 March 1993.
Sir Peter Lloyd
, Fareham
12:00,
11 March 1993
The committee is still considering permanent transfers. I agree that, for the purposes of rehabilitation, transfer is a good move, so long as the prisoner is prepared to co-operate fully with the regime to which he is transferred and so long as prisoners who have rightly been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment here do not have their periods of detention reduced as a result of transfer.