HC Deb 20 February 1990 vol 167 cc658-9W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for which period of time the Wellingborough young offenders institution will be used as an adult prison.

Mr. Mellor

Her Majesty's YOI Wellingborough was converted to adult use on 27 January. It will remain as a prison until the repairs at HMP Grendon—whose inmates it is temporarily holding—are completed. This is estimated to be in about five to eight months' time. The use to which Wellingborough will be put once its current population is returned to HMP Grendon is under consideration as part of a wide-ranging review of the young offender estate.

Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the cost of modifying Wellingborough young offenders institution to make it suitable for adult prisoners.

Mr. Mellor

The latest estimated cost is £230,000.