§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the projects now under(a) development and (b) consideration at Her Majesty's prison Ford, West Sussex, the cost of each project and if funding for each project has been approved and granted.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
461WLetter from Mr. A. Butler to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 18 January 1994:
HM Prison Ford
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about the projects under development and consideration at HM Prison Ford.
Work is currently being carried out to lay a new floor in the kitchen at an overall cost of £260,000. The sanitary recesses in A Wing are being refurbished at a cost of £10,000 per recess.
Projects under consideration include a new kitchen and dining facility, the options for which are currently being examined; the replacement of the sewage works at a cost of around £1 million; and the upgrading of the hutted accommodation. Design work has also been completed on a new sportshall, the estimated cost of which is £1.1 million. No funding has as yet been allocated for any of these schemes.