Birmingham Prison: G4S

(asked on 20th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what changes he has implemented at HMP Birmingham following the cancellation of the G4S contract at that site.


Answered by
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Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 29th May 2019

Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) exercised its right under the contract with G4S to ‘step-in’ in August 2018 and took over the running of HMP Birmingham. The ‘step-in’ meant that HMPPS could provide additional resources and support to directly address the areas of failure identified. The additional cost of the ‘step-in’ action, including additional HMPPS staff has been recovered from G4S in accordance with the terms of the contract.

There has been good progress since the ‘step-in’ however, the department and G4S have mutually agreed to formally return the prison to HMPPS in July 2019. G4S staff at Birmingham will transfer to HMPPS contracts on 1 July and they are being supported through the transition.

This change will continue to drive the long-term improvements that are required at the prison.

We have made no changes since G4S remain contractually responsible for the prison until 1st of July 2019.

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