HC Deb 11 December 2001 vol 376 c836W
Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if bid and tender documents relating to the(a) design, (b) build and (c) management of prisons are published; and if he will make a statement. [21636]

Beverley Hughes

The Invitation to Tender (ITT) issued by the Prison Service at the start of a competition for the design, construction, management and financing of a new prison is freely available. The bids made in response to the ITT are commercial in confidence and therefore not published.