HC Deb 20 November 1986 vol 105 c297W
73. Mr. Leigh

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the prison building programme.

Mr. Mellor

The prison building programme includes 20 new establishments of which three have now been completed, five are being built and the remainder are at various stages of design or planning. Together these new establishments will provide some 10,600 new places by the mid 1990's. In addition we are undertaking an extensive programme of modernisation and redevelopment of the existing prison estate with major capital work in progress or planned at about 100 establishments, including almost all of the Victorian local prisons. This part of the programme includes a number of place producing schemes which will provide a further 6,600 new places by about the same date, making a total of 17,200 in all.