Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance

(asked on 27th February 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Richard Burgon Portrait
Richard Burgon
(Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2018 to Question 126481, on Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance, and with reference to the contracts to outsource facilities management in prisons signed in 2014, what the most recent five charges were for which his Department has information on the cost of (a) replacing a broken window, (b) replacing a lock, (c) cleaning up a spillage, (d) fixing a toilet seat and (e) screening a shower.

Answered by
Portrait
Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 29th March 2018

The below table details up to five charges from a recent payment application. As stated in the answer to Question 126481 the disparate nature of the work required for each type of repair will determine the cost of the respective repairs, therefore the sample below is not a sufficient enough sample to derive an accurate average cost

As stated in the answer to Question 125576, the Department closely reviews defined costs to ensure that they are at open market value and offer the Department value for money.

Item

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

Notes

(a) Replacing a broken window

£269.99

£87.09

£468.36

£58.06

£152.44

  • Costs include labour and materials
  • Costs are determined by the size, type, number and location of window.
  • Due to the disparate nature of the work required, the number of windows repaired is not recorded. Some repairs may be a single repair, some may be multiple.

(b) replacing a lock

£29.03

£40.87

£40.87

£29.03

£11.58

  • Costs are for labour costs only. Materials for lock repairs are free-issued by HMPPS.
  • Sample includes repairs to locks and other associated door furniture to allow the safe operation of locks.

(c) cleaning up a spillage

£344.23

£488.76

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • Routine spillages are either undertaken prisoner parties or contractor cleaners as part of the fixed fee for areas in prisons that they manage.
  • These two tasks represent specialist cleans, such as biological cleans of bodily fluids, which require specialist teams, equipment, and cleaning supplies to meet health and safety standards

(d) fixing a toilet seat

£87.68

£32.13

£24.71

£13.50

£10.50

  • Costs include labour and materials
  • Includes repairs to toilet seat brackets.

(e) screening a shower

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • This has been interpreted to mean the hanging of a shower curtain. A recent record of costs cannot be located for this service.

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