Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the new prison scheduled to be built at Wellingborough will be financed through a private finance initiative.
We are committed to transforming all prisons into places of decency, safety and reform, and as part of our wholescale reforms there will be an investment of £1.3bn to modernise the prison estate.
No decision has yet been made on whether there is a role for private finance in the building of new prisons.