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Burgon demands answers on PFI prisons
SHADOW justice secretary Richard Burgon demanded answers from the Tories today over plans to build new prisons under private finance initiatives (PFI).
Responding to the announcement of a new PFI-funded prison in Leicestershire, Mr Burgon accused ministers of “obfuscating” over how 10,000 new prison places would be paid for, saying: “Now we know why.”
He said the Ministry of Justice had been “cut more than any other department.
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