HC Deb 03 July 1996 vol 280 cc482-3W
29. Mr. Duncan Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on his proposals to build a new privately financed prison at Bowhouse, Kilmarnock. [34199]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The proposed new 500-place prison will be designed, constructed, managed and financed by the private sector under the terms of the Government's private finance initiative.