<p>A New Prison at Baglan</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 4 July 2017.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:33, 4 July 2017

No, we haven’t had conversations along those lines. If she’s got that e-mail and she feels able to share it, I’d very much like to see it. I’m not sure whether she’s against the prison, or whether she has other questions, but, from our perspective, we know the prison can generate, as I said, 500 jobs, and I speak as somebody with a prison in my Constituency. It had no detrimental effect at all on the immediate area, or indeed on the town of Bridgend, or indeed on investment. We know that a prison is needed—another modern prison is needed in the south of Wales. There’s no getting away from that, but, of course, it’s hugely important to work with local people and businesses in order to reassure them, based on what I’ve seen with my own eyes in Bridgend.

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