Prisons: Finance

(asked on 11th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect on the prison estate of the resources allocated to the 10 Prisons Programme.


Answered by
 Portrait
Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 21st January 2019

The 10 Prisons Project received an initial £10m of funding to fight drugs, improve security and decency, and bolster leadership capability in the 10 priority prisons. Funding has not been diverted from the wider estate to achieve this, and we do not anticipate that there will be any adverse effects on other prisons.

The 10 Prisons Project provides us with an opportunity to test what works and will therefore serve as a template for the wider estate, helping to inform priority areas for future investment and development. Successful interventions will be shared as widely as possible, with these prisons leading the way rather than being the limit of our ambitions.

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