Prisons: Contracts
(asked on 27th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many failures there have been in contracts for the running of prisons at each institution in each of the last five years; what those failures were; and what financial penalties were attached to each such failure.
All private prison contracts are robustly managed by a full-time, on-site controller. Where a provider fails to meet the expected level of performance, financial remedies can be applied. This ensures that providers are incentivised to properly support the rehabilitation of offenders through a safe, decent and secure regime.
Privately managed prisons achieve the majority of their contractual targets with proportionately low levels of performance points and financial penalties applied as a result.
The following table shows a summary outlining the number of instances where financial remedies have been applied, their reasons and values since 2010 for current companies contracted to operate prisons.
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2010/11 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with procedures | 12 | £196,155 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Incidents | 7 | £94,584 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with Regimes | 2 | £50,699 |
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2011/12 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with procedures | 8 | £151,283.29 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Incidents | 5 | £41,576.41 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with Regimes | 2 | £18,606.30 |
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2012/13 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with procedures | 22 | £381,898.58 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Incidents | 9 | £69,642.26 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with Regimes | 12 | £206,061.77 |
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2013/14 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with procedures | 32 | £900,089 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Incidents | 16 | £95,825 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with Regimes | 22 | £243,502 |
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2014/15 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with procedures | 24 | £582,484 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Incidents | 16 | £150,589 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with Regimes | 11 | £131,534 |
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2015/16 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with procedures | 10 | £323,447 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Incidents | 6 | £39,449 |
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Total Financial Remedies due to Failure to comply with Regimes | 8 | £94,865 |
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