Prison Accommodation

(asked on 20th March 2024) - View Source
Questioner
Ruth Cadbury Portrait
Ruth Cadbury
(Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the (a) locations and (b) number of places per location of all planned prison places.

Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 27th March 2024

To date, we have delivered c.5,900 places. This includes our two new prisons HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way. By the end of 2025, we are on track to have delivered around 10,000 places in total. This will include our third new prison, HMP Millsike, delivering c.1,500 places, new houseblocks at HMPs Stocken and Rye Hill, as well as hundreds more Rapid Deployment Cells.

Under current plans, we are scheduled to deliver at the following sites from 21 March 2024:

Programme

Site

Places

New Prisons

HMP Millsike

1,468

Garth Wymott 2*

1,715

Gartree 2

1,715

Grendon 2

1,468

HMP Gartree Houseblock **

247

HMP Fosse Way Houseblock

245

Private prisons – houseblock

HMP Rye Hill

458

HMP Parc**

320

Houseblocks

HMP Bullingdon

247

HMP Channings Wood

494

HMP Elmley

247

HMP Hindley

494

HMP Highpoint

741

HMP Wayland

121

HMP Guys Marsh

180

HMP Stocken

214

Refurbishments

HMP Birmingham

301

HMP Norwich

171

HMP Liverpool

350***

Rapid Deployment Cells

HMP Erlestoke

40

HMP Foston Hall

40

HMP The Verne

40

HMP Northumberland

60

HMP Springhill

40

HMP Kirklevington Grange

153

HMP Prescoed

80

Category D

HMP Hatfield

60

HMP Leyhill **

240

HMP Springhill **

180

HMP Sudbury

120

HMP Ford **

420

HMP Standford Hill **

240

Small Secure Houseblocks

HMP Brinsford

120

HMP Humber

120

HMP Lancaster Farms

240

HMP Morton Hall

60

HMP Northumberland

240

HMP Onley

180

HMP Ranby

120

HMP Erlestoke

180

  • * This site is subject to an ongoing planning appeal.

  • ** Delivery at these sites is subject to planning permission.

  • *** A wing-by-wing refurbishment is ongoing, with some places already delivered.

  • Any additional sites not listed here are commercially sensitive and information released about these would prejudice the department’s negotiating position and ability to achieve value for money in these developments.

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