§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the budget at each penal establishment for medical services for each individual prisoner imprisoned during a year.
§ Mr. MellorOnly a small proportion of expenditure on medical services is budgeted at establishment level. Across the prison service as a whole medical services are estimated to have cost £31.8 million in the 1984–85 financial year; as the average inmate population during that period was about 43,400, the average cost of providing medical services per inmate was about £733.