HC Deb 16 October 1996 vol 282 c1000W
Mr. Alex Carlile

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what procedures have been adopted to designate the military corrective centre at Colchester a young offender institution; when the procedures were implemented; and if he will make a statement [40431]

Miss Widdecombe

The building at the military corrective training centre which we intend to use as a young offender institution will be declared to be such in the normal way by the Director General of the Prison Service acting on behalf of the Secretary of State under section 33(2) of the Prison Act 1952.