Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rory Stewart and Kemi Badenoch

Tuesday 13th November 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden) (Con)]

Will the Minister update the House on the progress of the refurbishment of the prisons estate?

[The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Rory Stewart)]

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.