HC Deb 10 December 1990 vol 182 cc248-9W
Mr. Janman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the timetable for a scheme to use locally manufactured refuse-derived fuel for a combined heat and power scheme for Isle of Wight prison complexes at Camphill, Albany and Parkhurst; and if he will make it his policy to promote the rapid conclusion of such a scheme.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

I understand that the Isle of Wight council is in negotiation with one of the electricity supply companies to construct a power station on the island capable of consuming the total output of refuse-derived fuels produced on the island.

The Home Office study into using such fuel for its prisons on the island has therefore been suspended.