G4S to pay £9.9m after failure of Birmingham prison contract
The Government has ended the outsourced contract with G4S to run Birmingham Prison.
G4S will pay £9.9m to cover the additional cost of the "step-in" action the Government was forced to take last year.
Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service took over running the prison last August after a series of issues. This was initially meant to be for six months, but after an extension was agreed in February it has now been decided to end the G4S agreement.
Prisons Minister Rory Stewart said: "I am confident that HMP Birmingham ha... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
