Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Crispin Blunt Excerpts
Wednesday 20th November 2013

(10 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Hear, hear.

Crispin Blunt Portrait Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate) (Con)
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Good ideas have many parents, and I am sitting alongside two of them in the case of the prison in Wrexham. I urge my hon. Friend the Minister to make sure that, as a new large prison, it contains units that can deal with all the different types of offenders who will need to be addressed to produce the best rehabilitative effect, and that there are proper work facilities for prisoners under that regime.

Stephen Crabb Portrait Stephen Crabb
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I thank my hon. Friend. Last week, I saw a great example of a large and diverse prison—Parc prison in Bridgend—which shows just how effectively different categories of prisoners can be brought together and offending behaviour can be tackled. We have exactly the same aspiration for the new prison in north Wales.