Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

Can the Minister ensure that the buildings are nice? Many buildings go up which are a blight on the landscape yet when one raises that with county managers they say that is because the law is not strong enough to help them require good design. If this was in the Minister's control he could try to do that. Perhaps in future these buildings will not all be used as prisons and could be given some other purpose. It would be worthwhile to avoid putting up square blocks or ugly buildings and to build instead attractively designed buildings.