Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20th April 1995.
Does the Minister agree that that is a costly and unsatisfactory method of holding prisoners and does not make the best use of police time? Given that prisons are overcrowded, would it not be better to use more resources on crime prevention and get more police on the beat, which would be more effective, more efficient and what the public desire?