HC Deb 24 February 1989 vol 147 cc836-7W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the women's prisons which do not have integral sanitation.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The majority of women's establishments have access to night sanitation, but the following have neither integral sanitation nor access to night sanitation:

  • Bullwood Hall
  • New Hall
  • Pucklechurch
  • Risley (one unit)
  • Durham (one unit)
  • Low Newton (one cell block only)

As stated in reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Boothferry (Mr. Davis) on 20 February at columns 506–8, plans are in hand to introduce integral sanitation at Durham and Pucklechurch and to provide access to night sanitation by electronic unlocking at Bullwood Hall and New Hall. The possibility of providing access to night sanitation at the two remaining establishments is under consideration.