Hywel Williams – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hywel Williams on 2016-05-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what provision HM Prison Service makes to meet the spiritual needs of prisoners who speak Welsh in prisons in (a) Wales and (b) other parts of the UK.

Andrew Selous

The spiritual needs of Welsh speaking prisoners have been, and continue to be, provided by chaplains working in multi-faith teams. The framework for providing faith services in languages other than English is detailed in Prison Service Instruction 05/2016 Faith and Pastoral Care of Prisoners.

This can be found on the Justice website at the following link:

https://www.justice.gov.uk/offenders/psis

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