Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what changes to contracts were agreed between his Department and private sector companies contracted to provide prison maintenance after his Department confirmed in July 2017 that the contracts would not deliver the savings budgeted for.

The Department has been undertaking a significant continuous improvement initiative in collaboration with both Carillion and Amey since May 2017. The aim was to make improvements to the systems, processes and practices that exist within the FM environment of prisons to deliver service and productivity improvements. To date no changes to contracts have been made as a consequence of this initiative