§ Dr. SpinkTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much it cost the United Kingdom to keep Lorrian Osman in custody prior to his extradition.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the prison service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Dr. Robert Spink, dated July 1993:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the costs of keeping Lorrain Osman in custody for seven years before his extradition.
We do not collect figures on the costs of individual prisoners, but the average cost of holding a person in custody from 6 December 1985 to 15 December 1992 in local and remand prisons would have been £140, 242 at 1992–93 prices.