Motion text
That this House notes with alarm the rising levels of squalor and disrepair in prisons, with the National Audit Office estimating the maintenance backlog has doubled to £1.8 billion in the past four years; further notes with alarm recent reports by the Independent Monitoring Boards highlighting how broken and outdated windows make it easy for drones to deliver drugs and weapons, while prisoners are bitten by rats and venomous false widow spiders, yet there is little accountability when maintenance providers’ performance falls short; believes that the privatisation of prison maintenance a decade ago is at the heart of this shameful situation, with profit-hungry contractors and a corporate-style GovCo formed after the collapse of Carillion driving a dangerous race to the bottom in living and working conditions across the prison estate; welcomes the recent agreement by ministers that all options need to be looked at in order to ensure the best possible value for money for the public purse, but recognises that outsourcing of prison maintenance has proved to be a false economy, with the taxpayer picking up the tab for contractors’ costly failures; and calls on the Government to cancel plans for retendering these contracts and to bring all prison maintenance back in-house at the earliest opportunity, in keeping with its pre-election pledge to oversee the biggest wave of insourcing for a generation.
Signatures (36)
The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.
Johnson, Kim
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Smith, Cat
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Yasin, Mohammad
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Glindon, Mary
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Saville Roberts, Liz
Plaid Cymru
Signed on
16 December 2024
Berry, Siân
Green Party
Signed on
16 December 2024
In addition to the sponsors, the following Members have signed to support the motion.
Abbott, Ms Diane
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Lavery, Ian
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
McDonnell, John
Independent
Signed on
16 December 2024
Nichols, Charlotte
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Corbyn, Jeremy
Independent
Signed on
16 December 2024
McDonald, Andy
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Long Bailey, Rebecca
Independent
Signed on
16 December 2024
Morris, Grahame
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Foster, Mr Paul
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Leishman, Brian
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Duncan-Jordan, Neil
Labour
Signed on
16 December 2024
Byrne, Ian
Independent
Signed on
16 December 2024
Burgon, Richard
Independent
Signed on
16 December 2024
Sultana, Zarah
Independent
Signed on
16 December 2024
Shannon, Jim
Democratic Unionist Party
Signed on
17 December 2024
Adam, Shockat
Independent
Signed on
17 December 2024
Trickett, Jon
Labour
Signed on
17 December 2024
Ribeiro-Addy, Bell
Labour
Signed on
18 December 2024
Whittome, Nadia
Labour
Signed on
18 December 2024
Lewis, Clive
Labour
Signed on
18 December 2024
Osborne, Kate
Labour
Signed on
18 December 2024
Witherden, Steve
Labour
Signed on
18 December 2024
Chowns, Ellie
Green Party
Signed on
19 December 2024
Rimmer, Ms Marie
Labour
Signed on
19 December 2024
Mohamed, Iqbal
Independent
Signed on
24 December 2024
Foy, Mary Kelly
Labour
Signed on
6 January 2025
Denyer, Carla
Green Party
Signed on
6 January 2025
Maskell, Rachael
Labour
Signed on
7 January 2025
Wilson, Sammy
Democratic Unionist Party
Signed on
7 January 2025
Eccles, Cat
Labour
Signed on
15 January 2025
There are no withdrawn signatures for this motion.