HC Deb 17 March 1960 vol 619 cc113-4W
52. Mr. Hobson

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made in implementing the building programme for penal establishments announced in February, 1959 by the White Paper on Penal Practice in a Changing Society.

Mr. R. A. Butler

I am glad to say that of the 14 new institutions mentioned in Part A of the programme 11 are now, or will shortly be, in course of construction. Sites have already been acquired for eight other institutions (including several in Part B of the programme) and work has started on some of these; negotiations are in progress for the acquisition of another nine sites. The replacement of Dartmoor Prison is to be the subject of a local inquiry on 25th April.

The following are the details of these twenty-eight institutions:

PRISON BUILDING PROGRAMME

Institutions which are now, or will shortly be, in course of construction

1 Security prison—

Hindley, Lancashire

1 Psychiatric prison hospital—

Grendon, Buckinghamshire

1 Secure borstal for boys—

Swinlen, Staffordshire

1 Secure borstal for girls—

Bullwood, Essex

4 Open borstals for boys—

Morton Hall, Lincolnshire now in operation
Wetherby, Yorkshire
Finnamore Wood, Buckinghamshire
Shaftesbury, Dorset

1 Borstal reception centre—

Ashford, Middlesex

2 Detention centres—

Medomsley, Durham

New Hall Camp, Yorkshire

institutions for which sites have been acquired

1 Remand and observation centre—

Risley, Lancashire

2 Security prisons—

Blundeston, Suffolk

Tern Hill, Shropshire

2 Open prisons for men—

Ford, Sussex

Appleton Thorn, Cheshire

1 Prison for women—

Styal, Cheshire

2 Detention centres—

Aldington, Kent

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Sues now under consideration

1 Remand and observation centre—near Durham

2 Open prisons for men—

Kirkham, Lancashire

Stiffkey, Norfolk

1 Prison for women—

Thornwood, Essex

1 Secure borstal for boys—

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

4 Detention centres—

Kirklevington, Yorkshire

East Clandon, Surrey

Haslar, Hampshire

Erlestoke, Wiltshire