Baroness Corston – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Corston on 2014-06-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the implementation of the Prison Service Instruction 30/2013, which prohibits prisoners from receiving parcels from relatives, whether any prisons have introduced measures to help women who no longer have access to sufficient underwear.

Lord Faulks

In order to ensure that women have access to sufficient underwear, there is now no restriction on the number of pairs of underwear women in prison can have in their cells (subject to standard overarching volumetric limits on property held in possession).