00:00You know we are changing that reality as you see here we're building prison
00:03places at a rapid scale 14,000 places coming like these out of the ground.
00:08We've also made important changes to sentencing to make sure we do have
00:11enough prison places. Without those sentencing changes we would run out in
00:14October or November of this year. Now that is about yes a slightly earlier
00:19release but with significant control in the community. However victims and
00:23survivors have raised what is concerned. New Prime Minister Andy and myself have
00:28looked at this, we've paused this briefly and have made important changes so that
00:31now those who have been imprisoned for rape, for child sexual offences, they won't
00:36be in scope. We'd like to have gone further than that but that's an important step forward.
00:39The final fixtures of the buildings, bringing the decorations through to the finished standard and then actually offering it forward.
00:47Across four buildings at the moment, about 24, 25 panels at the moment.
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