HC Deb 31 August 1880 vol 256 cc819-20
MR. W. H. SMITH

asked the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, If there is any intention to remove Millbank Prison, and to erect a new Mint upon the site, or to appropriate it as a public garden?

MR. ARTHUR PEEL

It is intended to close Millbank as a convict prison when the new convict prison now building at Wormwood Scrubbs, by convict labour, is finished; but it will be some years before such transfer can be made. The Directors have not made any proposal, for the Secretary of State's approval, regarding the disposal of Mill-bank when no longer required as a convict prison.