Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Faulks on 22 December 2015 (HL4650), why children's visits to their fathers in prison continue to be part of Incentives and Earned Privileges schemes when children's visits to their mother in prison are excluded from such schemes under issue 297 of Prison Service Order 4800.

Men and women prisoners have the same entitlements to visits. Both are eligible to family days where relevant, in addition to the normal visits entitlement. Prisons should not treat men and women prisoners differently with respect to visits solely on the basis of their gender.