§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department where the 16 new prisons which the Government plans to build will be located.
§ Mr. MellorThe locations of the new establishments in the current programme are as follows:
- Wayland—In the village of Griston, north of Thetford, Norfolk. Thorn Cross—In the village of Appleton Thorn, Cheshire. Stocken—Near Oakham, Leicestershire.
- Full Sutton—Adjacent to the village of Full Sutton, near Stamford Bridge, Humberside.
- Mount—On the former airfield at Bovingdon, Hertfordshire.
- Garth — Adjacent to Wymott prison, Ulnes Walton, near Leyland, Lancashire.
- Gaynes Hall—On the site of the former youth custody centre, adjacent to the village of Perry, near Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire.
- Swaleside — Adjacent to Standford Hill prison, at Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent.
- Featherstone// — Adjacent to the existing Featherstone prison north of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
- Milton Keynes—Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. Bicester—Near the village of Arncott, Oxfordshire.
- March—In March, Cambridgeshire.
- Lancaster Farms—In Lancaster, Lancashire.
- Woolwich—On the royal arsenal site at Woolwich, Greater London.
- Ashford—On the site of the existing remand centre at Ashford, Middlesex.
- North of England—On a site yet to be determined.