§ Lord Juddasked Her Majesty's Government:
What plans they have to restructure the prison estate to accommodate the number of women being given custodial sentences and those people being detained for reasons of immigration. [HL400]
§ Lord RookerThe use of the prison estate is kept under constant review by the Prison Service Management Board and I have endorsed its decision to change the function of Downview male closed prison to become a female closed prison; to remove immigration detainees from Rochester making the whole of that establishment a young offender institution; and for Dover young offender institution to become an establishment dedicated to immigration detainees.