46 Not making extensive renovations may be justified if a move to new premises is imminent the prison and probation service inmates to better view their surroundings. Pending notification, the agency would review the possibility of temporary solutions, such as a design to raise the floor beside the window. The Prison and Probation Service stressed that the issues are nationwide and that investments connected to these issues would be made in 2020–2022 in order to achieve and finance similar solutions from a national perspective. In a decision, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman welcomed the fact that the Prison and Probation Service plans to take measures to improve the environment in its exercise yards and that it is trying to take a comprehensive approach to the issue, therefore achieving similar solutions across the country.37 In the response to the Parliamentary Ombudsman regarding the remand prison in Gävle, the Prison and Probation Service stated that it is possible to widen the openings in the exercise yard’s wall to the outside area without compromising security. Such a solution is costly. In the Prison and Probation Service’s view, such a change is not justified because there are plans to move the remand prison to new premises. In a decision, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman stated she understood the Prison and Probation Service needing to make this type of consideration.38 It may be justified not to initiate an extensive rebuilding if, for example, a move to new premises is imminent. The Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman stated, however, that the Prison and Probation Service had not provided any details in the response regarding when the remand prison will move. The agency’s summary of future renovation projects of its premises states that the “aim” is that the remand prison in Gävle will be co-located with the prison in Gävle. The project has not started and is estimated, according to the Prison and Probation Service, to take five years to complete from the start of the project process. In the view of the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman, the information presented by the Prison and Probation Service is vague and the only concrete detail is that the current remand prison facilities will be used for at least another five years. The uncertainty that applies to the project means that this time may well be significantly longer. This means that for a relatively long time, in the view of the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman, inmates will continue to be directed to exercise yards that do not meet the basic requirements that should reasonably be set. In the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman’s view, it is not acceptable for the Prison and Probation Service to refrain from taking measures to improve its exercise yards in such circumstances. For this reason, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman recommends that the Prison and Probation Service also includes the remand prison in Gävle in the national review of, inter alia, exercise yards that it announced in its response following the inspection of the prison in Saltvik. 37 See the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s decision of 23 December 2019, ref. no. O 20-2019. 38 See the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s decision of 23 December 2019, ref. no. O 32-2019.