Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 January 1997.
I think that I can reassure my hon. Friend. No decision has been made about the location of any particular prisoner in connection with Woodhill. As for the stories of luxury, they are similar to the scaremongering stories that we often hear from the Labour party. In fact, there is only the most basic provision in Woodhill, in keeping with my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary's policy that prison should be decent but austere. There will be no in-cell television or radio, normal volumetric control will apply and furniture and equipment will be standard prison issue, including metal-frame beds. Association areas will have standard furnishings and equipment.