Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 5546 what the (a) original projected cost and (b) final cost of the new medical centre at HMP Wandsworth was.
The construction cost for the new healthcare centre at HMP Wandsworth was projected to be £9.8m plus VAT in April 2020. The final outturn cost is £10.4m plus VAT. The 6% increase in outturn costs was a result of inflation and some risk items materialising during delivery, though these were within the 10% risk contingency allowed for in the original business case.