§ Mr. Robert Sheldonasked 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.
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§ Mr. MellorThe 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.