HC Deb 30 March 1994 vol 240 cc842-3W

The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the Prison Service's programme to end slopping-out. Only 27 of 131 establishments are without 100 per cent. access to sanitation throughout 24 hours but, as you will note from the following table, in many cases this involves small numbers of cells. The dates in the table are the dates on which we currently plan to take the last of these cells at each establishment out of use for the installation of sanitation, at which point slopping-out will end at those establishments. Population changes and other operational factors may require adjustments to some of those dates, which are kept under regular review. The Prison Service continues to give very high priority to completing the sanitation programme as planned. Ninety per cent. of prisoners now have 24 hour access to sanitation and this should increase to over 95 per cent. by December 1994. We aim to achieve 100 per cent. access nationally by February 1996.

Prison establishments without 100 per cent. 24 hour access to sanitation
Establishment Number of cells Planned end date
Aylesbury A, B and C wings 210 3/95
Birmingham hospital 18 7/94
Brixton G wing 173 10/95
Brockhill C, D and F wings 72 10/94
Bristol B wing 102 7/94
Chelmsford D wing 33 6/94
Dartmoor C and E wings 167 2/96
Durham A, C and B (North) wings 202 9/94

Establishment Number of cells Planned end date
Erlestoke Wessex wing 60 6/94
Everthorpe Seg unit 10 11/94
Exeter C wing and hospital 97 6/94
Grendon G and H wings 28 6/94
Hindley A nd B wings 124 1/95
Hollesley Bay Seg unit 11 5/94
Leeds A, C and D wings 508 2/96
Lewes C and G wings 130 1/95
Liverpool A, H and K wings 347 2/96
Long Lartin D wing 77 8/94
Moorland hospital 7 5/95
Norwich hospital 15 4/94
Parkhurst M wing 40 2/96
Pentonville A wing 153 3/95
Preston A, C and D wings 346 2/96
Standford Hill Seg unit 4 4/94
Wandsworth A, B wings and hospital 288 2/96
Winchester B wing 108 8/94
Wormwood Scrubs A and B wings 333 9/94