Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025 to Question 21413, Prisons: Procurement, what recent estimate she has made of the potential savings to the public purse of awarding prison maintenance contracts to the public sector.

The Government is committed to ensuring professional Facility Management services across its prison estate and has initiated a programme of work that will put in place new contracts for the provision of maintenance services for prisons. These are being competitively tendered. As the procurement process is currently live, information regarding potential savings is commercially and market sensitive and therefore not able to be disclosed at the current time.