{"id":526587,"date":"2025-08-08T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/?p=526587"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:51:42","slug":"prisons-expert-appointed-to-lead-homes-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/government\/prisons-expert-appointed-to-lead-homes-england-08-08-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisons expert appointed to lead Homes England"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-5\" data-scroll-anchor=\"false\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pt-12 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @[37rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @[72rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:32rem] @[34rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @[64rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] 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contractor ISG, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/contractors\/isg\/isg-collapse-to-cost-prison-service-more-than-300m-28-01-2025\/\">cost the department \u00a3300m<\/a> on its New Prisons Programme.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2025, Rees told MPs that HMPPS faced greater risk from ISG\u2019s collapse on maintenance contracts than on new-build work.<\/p>\n<p>She warned that prison cells would close if remediation was not completed by the 2027 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Rees was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath earlier this year for services to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Homes England said her appointment would help drive regional delivery, strengthen local partnerships and accelerate its cultural and operational reform programme.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s transformation plans include the introduction of a regionalised operating model and the launch of the National Housing Bank, which is intended to unlock \u00a353bn of private investment in housing delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy 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