§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will review his plans to build a new prison facility at Everthorpe in Humberside, in the light of his proposals in the criminal justice White Paper Cm. 965.
§ Mr. MellorThe need for additional prison places is kept under constant review, in the light of existing or anticipated changes in the level of the prison population.
The new remand centre at Everthorpe, on which work has already begun, will provide much needed relief to the severely overcrowded local prisons in the area when it opens early in 1992. I do not anticipate that the proposals in the criminal justice White Paper, "Crime, Justice and Protecting the Public", once enacted, will remove the need for this particular establishment.