Debates between Kemi Badenoch and Rory Stewart during the 2017-2019 Parliament

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Kemi Badenoch and Rory Stewart
Tuesday 13th November 2018

(6 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kemi Badenoch Portrait Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden) (Con)
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Will the Minister update the House on the progress of the refurbishment of the prisons estate?

Rory Stewart Portrait The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Rory Stewart)
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As the Secretary of State has pointed out, £58 million more has come in the Budget. In individual prisons, we have now invested more than £16 million, which has been spent particularly on replacing windows and refurbishing cells. In Wormwood Scrubs, for example, as I have seen, the whole of the fourth landing on Delta wing has been refurbished. That is good progress, but there is more to do.