Prisons: Construction
Commons · Question 34071 · Tabled 26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
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
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 7 Mar 2025
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...