Prisons: Construction — Written Question

Question

Martin Wrigley

Liberal Democrat — Newton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using (a) alternatives to traditional construction methods in the construction of prisons and (b) modular and rapid deployment cells to mee

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

Our new prisons are being delivered through Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) which use a standardised design, allowing us to build faster and more effectively. MMC describes contemporary innovations in co...

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