Louise Haigh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the contractual agreement between her Department and G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Limited at HM Prison (a) Birmingham and (b) Oakwood for what reason financial remedies have been levied in (i) failure to comply with procedures, (ii) incidents and (iii) failure to comply with prison regime in each year from 2012-13 to date.
Mr Sam Gyimah
Privately Managed prison contracts contain provisions which allow financial remedies to be applied for non-performance.
Performance points are awarded according to the severity of failure. If the total number of points exceeds the agreed baseline for the performance quarter or year, financial remedies are applied against the Contractor in accordance with the Contract.
As financial remedies are only applied if baseline targets are exceeded it is not, possible to link individual incidents to the value of remedies that have been applied due to this cumulative effect.
