§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make available in the Library details of contracts for the Blakenhurst and Doncaster prisons; what representations he has received concerning these contracts; and what has been the nature of such representations.
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§ 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 A. J. Butler to Mr. Robert Wareing, dated 20 June 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about Blakenhurst and Doncaster prisons.A copy of the invitations to tender which formed the basis of the contracts are already in the Library and copies of the contracts without details of the contractor's prices will be placed there.From time to time the Director General receives questions concerning the nature of these contracts. They are diverse in their scope but have covered the costs of the contracts; staffing numbers and arrangements; which companies had tendered for the contracts; and the wrongly perceived 'privatisation' of the Prison Service.