What proportion of its budget for the current spending review period will be spent on the construction of HM Prison Bishopbriggs and HM Pri…

The Scottish Government Infrastructure Investment Plan 2008, published in March 2008, provides details of the funding and planned investment in the prison estate. The Scottish Prison Service budget for prison development, including HM Prison Bishopbriggs and HM Prison Grampian, amounts to £356 million during the current spending review period, and forecast to continue at £120 million per annum thereafter to complete the modernisation of the prison estate.
The planned investment in the prison estate during the current spending review is 0.4% of the Scottish Government''s Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) budget for that period.