HC Deb 12 December 1989 vol 163 c582W
Mr. Wallace

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which four proposed new prisons have been eliminated from the new building programme for the mid-1990's.

Mr. Mellor

No new prisons have been eliminated from the building programme. Out of the full programme of 28 new prisons there are six on which construction or preliminary work has not yet started. Construction will begin on two of these in 1991–92 and 1992–93 as previously planned. It is decisions on when and where to build the remaining four which have been deferred.