HC Deb 17 February 1993 vol 219 c236W
Mr. Hardy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of(a) cautions as alternatives to prosecution and (b) prosecutions in each of the last three years.

Mr. Jack

Information for 1989 to 1991, which is provisional, is given in the table.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

[holding answer 16 February 1993]: The average weekly cost per inmate of providing gas, electricity and water in 1991–92 was as follows:

£
(a) Local prisons 6.69
(b) Remand centres1 7.04
1 The remand centre figure refers only to Hindley which holds exclusively remand prisoners.