HC Deb 20 July 2004 vol 424 c221W
Julie Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the estimated cost is of future market test under the National Offender Management Service. [179473]

Paul Goggins

It has not yet been decided how many or which prisons will be market tested in the first year. Work is under way to decide how the competition will be structured and what criteria will be used to select prisons to be market tested.