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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on conditions at Feltham B Young Offenders Institution. - Includes figures.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on conditions at Feltham B Young Offenders Institution. - Includes figures.
Asked by
Ann Widdecombe
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
18 July 2001
For answer on
15 October 2001
Answered on
15 October 2001
Miss Widdecombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on conditions at Feltham B Young
Offenders Institution. [6378]
Beverley Hughes: In a report published on 26 July, the then Chief Inspector of Prisons, Sir David Ramsbotham, rightly criticised the
poor regime at Feltham B and compared it to that for under 18-year-old prisoners at Feltham A, which had benefited from major
investment to meet Youth Justice Board standards.
Improvements to the regime on Feltham B are now a priority. Purposeful activity is currently over 23 hours per week. Two additional
physical education instructors and one horticultural craftsman have been appointed, with further additional posts approved. The
completion of a new education facility for under-18s means that the original facility is now exclusively available to Feltham B
prisoners, providing up to 70 places a day. £500,000 is being invested from the Custody to Work programme to help the employability
of young people on release, and £575,000 is being spent to convert existing buildings into a new gymnasium.
Four bedded units have been reduced to two-person occupancy, and doubling in cells intended for one has ended. In-cell electricity
has been installed in four units with a fifth under way.
I am taking a close personal interest in developments at Feltham and I am determined to see that progress is maintained.
Subjects
Employment; Education; Standards; Sports; Prison accommodation; Young offender institutions; HMP/YOI Feltham; Custody to work programme
Date
15 October 2001
Reference
6378; 372 c918-9W
House
House of Commons