HC Deb 18 November 1991 vol 199 cc15-6W
Mr. Shersby

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish details of the new prisons due to be opened in each of the next five years as a result of his Department's prison building programme; and if he will give the location of each prison and the number of places to be provided.

Mrs. Rumbold

Twelve prisons constructed under this Government's prison building programme have been opened to date. The remaining prisons in the programme are currently estimated to come into operation as follows:

Prison Location Type Number of places
1992
Elmley Sheppey, Kent Training prison 620
Bullingdon Arncot, Bicester, Oxfordshire Local prison 649
Wolds Brough, North Humberside Remand prison 320
Holme House Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland Local prison 649
Woodhill Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire Local prison 579
High Down Banstead, Surrey Local prison 649
Blakenhurst Redditch, Worcestershire Local prison 649
Lancaster Farms Lancaster Young offender institution 374
1994
Doncaster Doncaster, South Yorkshire Local prison 779

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