§ Mr. BeithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions private prison operators have been fined for breaking contract conditions; if he will give details; and if he will make a statement. [45618]
§ Ms QuinThere have been four occasions on which payments have been withheld from the fees paid to the contractors running privately managed prisons, as shown in the table.
Payments withheld from contractors running privately managed prisons Prison Date Amount £ Circumstances Blakenhurst February 1994 41,167 Temporary reduction in cell availability Buckley Hall February 1997 526 Reduction in payments due to failure to meet performance standards Parc April 1998 54,782 Non-reporting of incident Altcourse May 1998 28,088 Reduction in payments due to failure to meet performance standards