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<p>The Prime Minister has made clear his focus on tackling crime and announced in
August an investment of up to £2.5 billion to transform the prison estate and provide
10,000 additional prison places.</p><p> </p><p>Our recent Spending Round settlement
provides the funding for MoJ to begin delivering this commitment and outline planning
permission has been approved for a new prison at Full Sutton.</p><p> </p><p>The 10,000
places are additional to the 3,500 places, which we have begun at Wellingborough;
that we will start building at Glen Parva next year, and; that we have already built
at HMP Stocken.</p>
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