Blantyre House Prison
(asked on 7th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, between what dates he plans for Blantyre House prison to be closed for refurbishment in 2015.
This question was answered on 15th July 2015
Blantyre House was taken out of use temporarily because of the number of empty places across the open prison estate. This provided the opportunity to redeploy staff and also to carry out basic refurbishment work at the site
There are still around 500 available places in open prisons and, as such, the position with Blantyre House remains the same; there is no operational or fiscal reason to reopen the site this summer. This position will be reviewed in the autumn.