§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide figures for each prison, detention centre or other penal establishment in England and Wales, showing the estimated weekly cost of keeping a prisoner
§ Mr. HurdCosts of individual penal establishments are not presently available. The average weekly costs of keeping a person in custody in certain types of establishments during the financial year 1981–82, the latest year for which information is available, were published in the report on the work of the prison department 1982 — Cmnd. 9057. A new financial information system was introduced on 1 April 1983 which will enable estimates of costs, on a financial year basis, to be compiled for individual establishments. We expect to be able to publish these estimates for the financial year 1983–84 in the later part of this year.