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Home Office

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Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those prisons constructed under the private finance initiatives and their public sector comparators. [109597] Hilary Benn: The prisons designed, constructed, managed and financed under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) are: Altcourse, Ashfield, Dovegate, Forest Bank, Lowdham Grange, Parc and Rye Hill. In addition, the contracts for two new PFI prisons at Ashford, Middlesex and at Peterborough have been signed and construction work is under way. In all cases, there was no up-to-date publicly procured prison and the public service comparator was therefore estimated, being derived from past experience in terms of public sector capital expenditure in constructing and refurbishing a prison and to cover the cost of operating prison. Estimates took account of the different requirements of each prison. The public sector comparators are shown in the following table. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Prison Public sector comparator Altcourse 249.5 Ashfield 141 Ashford 259 Dovegate 292 Forest Bank 234.5 Lowdham Grange 157 Parc 319 Peterborough 335 Rye Hill 209 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

109597; 404 c529-30W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Cost effectiveness Construction Prisons Public sector Private finance initiative

Contains statistics

Yes

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