§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison workshops have been closed in the last 10 years; at which prisons they were closed; and when they were closed.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from D. Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 18 October 1993:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about prison workshop closures in the last 10 years.I am afraid it is not possible to provide all of the information you are seeking in precisely the form you have requested, but I hope the following may be of help.In 1983 there were over 300 prison workshops. In 1985 Home Office Ministers approved proposals for a review of prison workshops that were under-utilised. This resulted in the closure of about 50 workshops. Since 1985 other workshops have closed (some of which have re-opened doing other work), some prisons which had workshops have been closed, and some new prisons with workshops have opened. At present there are 238 prison workshops in operation, a net reduction of around 60 on the 1983 figure.Comprehensive details about the location and timing of all closures over the past 10 years could, I am afraid, only be provided at disproportionate cost.
§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many workshops there are in each prison in England and Wales.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from D. Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 18 October 1993:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of workshops in each prison in England and Wales.I enclose a list of all prisons in England and Wales having workshops, arranged by Prison Service Area. There are 238 workshops in all, at 99 prison establishments. A further 26 have no workshops but do have a Farms and Gardens enterprise; three have neither.Area: East Anglia Establishment and workshop
- Blundeston
- Tailoring
- Laundry
- Printing
- Bullwood Hall
- Laundry
- Contract Services
- Chelmsford
- Laundry
- Highpoint
- Tailoring
- Contract Services
- Norwich
- Laundry
- Printing
- Wayland
- Tailoring
- Laundry
Area: Kent Establishment and workshop
- Aldington
- Contract Services
108 - Canterbury
- Combined textiles
- Cookham Wood
- Tailoring
- Maidstone
- Tailoring
- Laundry
- Contract Services
- Printing
- Rochester
- Laundry
- Standford Hill
- Light textiles
- Swaleside
- Combined textiles
- Contract Services
- Elmley
- Laundry
Area: London North Establishment and Workshop
- Littlehey
- Interlock
- Shoes
- Contract Services
- Grendon
- Laundry
- Spring Hill
- Contract Services
- Holloway
- Light Textiles
- Whitemoor
- Tailoring
- Tailoring
- Laundry
- Contract Services
- Oxford
- Laundry
- Heavy textiles
- Pentonville
- Tailoring
- Wellingborough
- Laundry
- Wormwood Scrubs
- Tailoring
- Tailoring (cutting)
- Laundry
- Engineering assembly
- Contract Services
Area: London South Establishment and Workshop
- Albany
- Tailoring
- Woodwork joinery
- Woodwork brushmaking
- Camp Hill
- Heavy textiles
- Light textiles
- Engineering fabrication
- Feltham
- Laundry
- Parkhurst
- Tailoring
- Laundry
- Contract Services
- Wandsworth
- Tailoring
- Clothing repairs
- Laundry
- Contract Services
- Woodwork joinery
- Woodwork brushmaking
- Belmarsh
- Contract Services
Area: South Coast Establishment and workshop
- Ford
- Tailoring (shirts)
109 - Engineering fabrication
- Contract Services
- Contract Services
- Kingston-Portsmouth
- Printing
- Drawing Office
- Lewes
- Contract Services
- Winchester
- Tailoring
- Contract Services
- Contract Services
- Downview
- Contract Services
- Highdown
- Laundry
Area: Central Establishment and workshop
- Ashwell
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Shoes
- Birmingham
- Laundry
- Heavy textiles
- Heavy textiles
- Featherstone
- Interlock
- Interlock
- Interlock
- Engineering fabrication
- Gartree
- Knitwear
- Shoes
- Plastics
- Glen Parva
- Laundry
- Contract Services
- Contract Services
- Leicester
- Contract Services
- Long Lartin
- Laundry
- Light textiles
- Engineering fabrication
- Stafford
- Tailoring
- Tailoring (cutting)
- Laundry
- Contract Services
- Contract Services
Area: Mercia Establishment and workshop
- Drake Hall
- Laundry
- Interlock
- Contract Services
- Shrewsbury
- Interlock
- Stoke Heath
- Laundry
- Engineering Assembly
- Sudbury
- Laundry
- Shoes
- Slippers
- Contract Services
- Woodwork joinery
Area: The Chilterns Establishment and workshop
- Aylesbury
- Laundry
- Contract Services
- Coldingley
- Laundry
- Engineering fabrication
- Engineering (signs)
- Onley
- Contract Services
110 - Contract Services
- The Mount
- Engineering fabrication
- Bullingdon
- Laundry
Area: Wales and the West Establishment and workshop
- Bristol
- Tailoring
- Heavy textiles
- Cardiff
- Tailoring
- Laundry
- Contract Services
- Erlestoke
- Sewing machine repair
- Leyhill
- Laundry
- Woodwork joinery
- Printing
- Swansea
- Tailoring
- Light textiles
- USK
- Concrete
Area: Wessex Establishment and workshop
- Channings Wood
- Tailoring
- Laundry
- Woodwork (furniture)
- Dartmoor
- Laundry
- Light textiles
- Engineering fabrication
- Woodwork (furniture)
- Dorchester
- Heavy textiles
- Exeter
- Contract Services
- Guys Marsh
- Laundry
- Portland
- Laundry
- Woodwork joinery
- Shepton Mallet
- Tailoring
- The Verne
- Contract Services
- Woodwork joinery
Area: East Midlands Establishment and workshop
- Lincoln
- Laundry
- Heavy textiles
- Interlock
- Interlock
- Lindholme
- Tailoring
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Nottingham
- Tailoring
- Ranby
- Contract Services
- Plastics
- Woodwork joinery
- Whatton
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Stocken
- Heavy textiles
- Sewing machine repair
- Moorland
- Heavy textiles
- Contract Services
Area: North East Establishment and workshop
- Acklington
- Tailoring
111 - Laundry
- Heavy textiles
- Durham
- Heavy textiles
- Light textiles
- Light textiles
- Frankland
- Laundry
- Woodwork (furniture)
- Low Newton
- Light textiles
- Castington
- Heavy textiles
- Full Sutton
- Tailoring
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Clothing repairs
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Contract Services
- Holme House
- Laundry
- Contract Services
Area: North West Establishment and workshop
- Haverigg
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Laundry
- Heavy textiles
- Weaving—hand
- Weaving—machine
- Sewing machine repair
- Contract Services
- Hindley
- Weaving—hand
- Concrete
- Kirkham
- Laundry
- Weaving—machine
- Sizing and beaming
- Contract Services
- Woodwork joinery
- Lancaster
- Heavy textiles
- Light textiles
- Preston
- Heavy textiles
- Light textiles
- Wymott
- Tailoring
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Laundry
- Weaving—machine
- Engineering fabrication
- Garth
- Tailoring
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Weaving—machine
- Contract Services
Area: Trans Pennine Establishment and workshop
- Leeds
- Heavy textiles
- Light textiles
- Light textiles
- Contract Services
- Liverpool
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Laundry
- Shoes
- Contract Services
- Woodwork joinery
- Contract Services
112 - New Hall
- Light textiles
- Risley
- Laundry
- Light textiles
- Contract Services
- Styal
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Wakefield
- Tailoring
- Laundry
- Heavy textiles
- Heavy textiles
- Light textiles
- Engineering fabrication
- Engineering
- Contract Services
Area: Yorkshire Establishment and workshop
- Deerbolt
- Laundry
- Everthorpe
- Woodwork joinery
- Hull
- Light textiles
- Light textiles
- Contract services
- Contract services
- Northallerton
- Light textiles
- Rudgate
- Tailoring (shirts)
- Laundry
- Sizing and beaming
- Sewing machine repair
- Thorp Arch
- Tailoring