2021 Report details for project: Wellingborough New Build Prison
Project name | Wellingborough New Build Prison - there are 2 reports for this project: 2020, 2021 |
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Organisation | MOJ (D18) - see all reports for this organisation |
Report year | 2021 (data is from March 2021) |
Category | Infrastructure - see all reports for this category |
Description: | The prison population is forecast to rise significantly during the 2020s and the department is bringing forward new prison places to accommodate new offenders. The new prison at Wellingborough will be a resettlement prison, creating 1680 Category C resettlement places The prison will be privately operated by G4S who are in the process of completing their 12 month mobilisation period ahead of Service Commencement in January 2022. |
DCA (RAG) | Amber |
DCA text: | Compared to financial year 19/20-Q2, the Infrastructure Project Authority's Delivery Confidence Assessment rating remained at Amber. This is primarily due to the following factors: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected staff numbers on site which has created a risk of delay to the completion date, although staff levels have recently improved. Good progress is being made by the prison operator to mobilise the new service |
Start date | 2018-08-17 |
End date | 2022-06-14 |
Schedule text | Compared to financial year 19/20-Q2, the project's end-date remained scheduled to finish on 14 June 2022 This is primarily due to the following factors: Work on site has remained constant despite COVID-19 but the discovery of a significant amount of asbestos during groundworks and adverse weather conditions in February 2020 resulted in a 3 week delay to service commencement date, now 8 January 2022. There remains an ongoing risk of further delay due to COVID-19. |
Baseline | £134.38m |
Forecast | £185.71m |
Variance | 38.00% |
Variance text: | The budget variance exceeds 5%. The prison's delivery is now expected to be one month later than originally estimated with relevant mobilisation costs being incurred in the financial year 2021/22 rather than 2020/21. Last year there was an £81m underspend against original baseline. The overall budget remains within the funding agreed with HM Treasury |
Whole Life Cost | £5,536.36m |
WLCost text: | Compared to financial year 19/20-Q2, the projects Baseline Whole Life Cost decreased from 6316.01m to £5536.36m. This is primarily due to the following factors: The baseline reported in Q2 19/20 was an overstatement which was corrected in a subsequent return. |
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Sourcefile | IPA_2021.csv |
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