§ Mr. Corbynasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give details of plans for any new prisons to be built, where they are to be located and when any building will commence.
§ Mr. HurdThe new prison building programme at present includes 14 projects. Of these, four are currently under construction, four more will pass into construction later this year and the remainder are at various stages of planning and design. Details are given in the following table:
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Name of Establishment Type Number of Inmates Year of start on site Wayland (Norfolk) Category C Adult male 484 1981 Appleton Thorn (Cheshire Open Male Young Offender 300 1982 Stocken (Leicestershire) Closed Male Young Offender 300 1982 Full Sutton (Humberside) Category B Adult Male Dispersal 447 1983 Swaleside (Kent) Category B Adult Male Non-Dispersal 504 1984 Garth (Lancashire) Category B Adult Male Non-Dispersal 512 1984 Bovingdon (Hertfordshire) Category C Adult Male 484 1984 Gaynes Hall (Cambridgeshire) Category C Adult Male 484 1984 Featherstone (Staffordshire) Category C Adult Male and Young Offender Remand 448 1985 Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) Local Prison 480 1986 March (Cambridgeshire) Category B 480 1986
Name of Establishment Type Number of Inmates Year of start on site Adult Male Non-Dispersal Bicester (Oxfordshire) Local Prison 600 1986 Lancaster Farms (Lancashire) Closed MaleYoung Offender 300 1987 Woolwich (Greater London) Local Prison 770 1987