Proposed Prison: Port Talbot Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Proposed Prison: Port Talbot

Imran Hussain Excerpts
Tuesday 12th September 2017

(6 years, 8 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Sam Gyimah Portrait Mr Gyimah
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Infrastructure is not just motorway access but the local infrastructure of the area. For a category C prison, which would effectively be a resettlement prison, ease of access to employment is important, so that prisoners can be released on temporary licence and come back easily. It is also important that local people can work in the prison without having to commute long distances, not to mention ease of access for prisoners’ families to visit them. All those things are taken into account when we look at local infrastructure.

Imran Hussain Portrait Imran Hussain (Bradford East) (Lab)
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Will the Minister give way?

Graham Brady Portrait Mr Graham Brady (in the Chair)
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Order. I should make it clear that the rules of procedure do not allow for Opposition spokespeople to participate in half-hour debates—they are exactly the same as the rules that apply to Adjournment debates in the main Chamber.