HC Deb 09 July 1985 vol 82 cc388-9W
Mr. Robert Sheldon

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Knowsley, North (Mr. Kilroy-Silk) on 5 June, Official Report, column 158, if he will publish the cost of each of the 16 new prisons within the prison building programme.

Mr. Mellor

The estimates are as follows:

£000
Wayland, Norfolk 16,500
Stocken, Leicestershire 12,500
Thorn Cross, Cheshire 8,500
Full Sutton, Humberside 19,700
Mount, Hertfordshire 16,730
Littlehey, Cambridgeshire 17,900
Swaleside, Kent 21,932
Garth, Lancashire 24,313
Woolwich, Greater London 50,975
Brinsford, Staffordshire 18,460
March, Cambridgeshire 23,700
Bicester, Oxfordshire 27,600
Lancaster Farms, Lancashire 13,000
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire 28,600
Ashford, Middlesex 30,000
Site in North Region 30,000

The total estimated cost is now just over £360 million. The figure of approximately £340 million given in my reply to a question from the hon. Member for Knowsley, North (Mr. Kilroy-Silk) on 5 June, at columns 157–58, was based on estimates made in January 1985, the latest then available.

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