Privately Financed Prisons

Debate between Lord Keen of Elie and Baroness Redfern

Wednesday 27th June 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord Keen of Elie]

My Lords, we are committed to working with local and national partners to develop the residential women’s centres pilot on at least five sites, as indicated by my right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor. I understand that these residential women’s centres pilots will be publicly funded.

[Baroness Redfern (Con)]

My Lords, with the abandonment of the five community prisons for women in England and Wales, the trial residential centres to help offenders with issues of finding work and drug rehabilitation are welcome. Are the proposed residential centres for women all to be privately financed?

[Lord Keen of Elie]

My Lords, as I hope I indicated earlier, the intention is that the five residential centres should be publicly financed.