HC Deb 20 February 1989 vol 147 c501W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the estimated cost of each of the prisons under construction or planned within the prison building programme.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Irving) on 20 January 1989 at column349. This provides the requested information in relation to all the new prisons in the current building programme on which sufficient progress has been made for preliminary estimates to be produced.

Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the original estimated cost and the actual cost of building each of the completed prisons within the Government's prison building programme since 1979.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Irving) on 20 January 1989 at column348.