Extract from Estimates Day debate (Commons) on Ministry of Justice - July 2
Tuesday, 3 July 2018 08:46
Richard Burgon (Leeds East) (Lab):...Beyond Serco, public cash was
thrown at Amey and Carillion for prison maintenance works despite
cells being rat-infested and left in disrepair. And beyond Serco,
the Sodexo-run Peterborough Prison recently became the first
women’s prison in years deemed not safe enough by inspectors, and
the G4S Oakhill child prison is no better, yet last week
the Government announced yet another privately financed prison and
are preparing the ground for more...Request free trial
(Leeds East)
(Lab):...Beyond Serco, public cash was thrown at Amey and
Carillion for prison maintenance works despite cells being
rat-infested and left in disrepair. And beyond Serco, the
Sodexo-run Peterborough Prison recently became the first women’s
prison in years deemed not safe enough by inspectors, and
the G4S Oakhill child prison is no better, yet
last week the Government announced yet another privately financed
prison and are preparing the ground for more to follow. So I want
to make one thing clear to the Government and to those who wish to
bid for any new private prisons: a Labour Government will end the
discredited outsourcing of prison maintenance works and bring them
back in house. We will oppose the building of more private prisons.
We will put an end to the wasteful scandal of PFI in our prison
system. And we will use every power possible to bring the work of
underperforming private sector companies in our prisons back
in-house at the earliest opportunity...
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