SIR HOWARD VINCENTTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state the average cost per week per prisoner undergoing a sentence of imprisonment or penal servitude, for food, clothing, heating, medical attendance, supervision, instruction, housing, and other expenses of maintenance.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers Douglas.) This information can be found in 54 Appendix 12D, page 119, of the last Report of the Commissioners of Prisons. The total cost per week for 1901–2, as given in those Tables, is—Gross (exclusive of cost of new buildings), 11s. 4¼d. in Local Prisons—i.e., for prisoners sentenced to imprisonment; 18s. 1½d. in Convict Prisons—i.e., for prisoners sentenced to penal servitude. Net, after deducting value of prisoner's labour, 2s. 7¼d., and incidental receipts (sale of old stores), ¾d., 8s. 8¼d. in Local Prisons. Net, after deducting value of prisoner's labour, 7s. 2½d., and incidental receipts (sale of old stores), 1½d., 10s. 9½d. in Convict Prisons.