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» Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Prisons

Asked to confirm that today’s announcement was new money and new places, the PMS said he could confirm that, as Jack Straw had made clear in his statement. Asked why it had taken a review to build new prisons, the PMS said that a review was needed to look at it in a coherent and long-term way, looking at both the demand and supply side together. Asked where the money would be coming from if not the CSR, the PMS said that the CSR only went up to 2011, so we were talking about the period after the CSR settlement. The PMS said that his understanding of it was that the Government was pre-committing money from the next spending review.

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