HC Deb 04 February 1977 vol 925 c444W
Mr. Corbett

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when it is now planned to start work on the category C prison on the former Bovingdon airfield and what is the latest estimated cost of the prison at current prices.

Mr. John

The prison building programme envisaged in the White Paper on Public Expenditure to 1979–80 (Cmnd. 6393) does not make provision for this project and it is not possible to specify the date on which it will start. The most recent estimate of the cost of the prison is approximately £7 million.