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Debate between Lord Grayling and David Heath
Tuesday 12th November 2013

(10 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Heath Portrait Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome) (LD)
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One of the really bad ideas from the previous Labour Government was the so-called Titan prisons. The Attorney-General, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve) said so, as did the Justice Select Committee, and I might even have said so myself. So will the Secretary of State tell my why that really bad idea might now be considered a good idea?

Lord Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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We are not building Titan prisons. The proposed new prison in Wrexham, for example, will be a campus prison with a number of separate small units for 250 to 300 prisoners. It will benefit from the economies of scale achieved by shared facilities, but we will not create a single monolithic institution in which people are detained.