Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to review the prison maintenance contracts with GEOAmey and Carillion.

We are currently engaged in a joint review with providers and key stakeholders, to consider what changes in the current FM contract arrangements are required to deliver an improved service to HMPPS. Detailed design solutions are being reviewed by a Steering Group, composed of senior managers from the organisations involved, with a view to implementing changes which should result in a more responsive reactive maintenance provision, as well as improvements to the systems and processes required to manage the contracts effectively.

In the interim we continue to manage and monitor performance closely through the current contractual processes.