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01 January 1991

Prisons - places
artdoc May=1991
House of Commons written answer 13.7.89 Col.639

Mr. Tredinnick: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home
Department how many additional prison places have become
available since 1979; how many additional places are expected
to be provided this year; and how many additional places are
expected to become available in the foreseeable future.

Mr. Douglas Hogg: Since 1979 more than 6,000 new places
have been added to the prison estate, over half of which have
been provided at the eight new prisons which have opened since
1985. The first phase of a new prison for 350 prisoners has
recently opened in converted buildings at Banstead in Surrey,
and by the end of the financial year it is planned that a
total of nearly 2,000 new places will have been added to the
estate.
Through a combination of more new prisons, additions to
existing prisons and redevelopment and place producing
schemes, about 17,000 new places will also be delivered
between the end of this financial year and the mid-1990s. By
that time a total of about 25,000 places will have been added
to the system.