Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department took in response to reports issued between 2015 and 2017 by Independent Monitoring Boards on Carillion's execution of prison maintenance contracts.

Each IMB report which flags up concerns on the estate has been reviewed by the HMPPS National Service Management Team who have provided information on the action being taken to address some of the issues highlighted and this has been fed back into the official responses from HMPPS. Where the issues highlighted are to do with Carillion performance these concerns have fed in through either the performance reviews held regularly at site or if necessary escalated through meetings with senior leaders from both organisations. In some instances, the concerns when investigated have related to the requirement for investment in assets which is not a responsibility of the maintenance contractors, but is managed through the internal asset investment process which decides how limited funds can be allocated to operational and maintenance priorities.