§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which four proposed new prisons have been eliminated from the new building programme for the mid-1990's.
§ Mr. MellorNo new prisons have been eliminated from the building programme. Out of the full programme of 28 new prisons there are six on which construction or preliminary work has not yet started. Construction will begin on two of these in 1991–92 and 1992–93 as previously planned. It is decisions on when and where to build the remaining four which have been deferred.