HC Deb 22 May 1984 vol 60 cc392-3W
Mr. Corbyn

asked 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. Hurd

The 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:

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

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