Liz Saville Roberts
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(6 years, 10 months ago)
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Rory Stewart
I look forward very much to meeting my hon. Friend to hear more about ONE3ONE Solutions.
Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd) (PC)
If a super-prison is built in Port Talbot, there will up to 1,000 more prison places in Wales than there are currently prisoners from Wales. Does the Minister share the Howard League’s concern that Wales is set to become Westminster’s penal colony?
Rory Stewart
I think we ought to be very careful with that kind of language. There are currently about 85,000 prisoners within the estate, so having 1,000 extra prisoners in Wales is not the creation of England’s penal colony.