§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average weekly cost of keeping(a) convicted prisoners and (b) prisoners on remand in prison.
§ 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 1. Dunbar to Ms Cheryl Gillan, dated 23 March 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent question about the average weekly cost of keeping (a) convicted prisoners and (b) prisoners on remand in prison.
Costs are collected for types of establishment rather than for types of prisoner. The figures for 1992–93 are:
Type of establishment Net operating cost per prisoner place per week £ Local Prisons and Remand Centres 561 Remand Prison 333 Dispersal prisons 705 Category B Training prisons 481 Category C Training prisons 357 Adult Male Open prisons 285 Young Offender Closed establishments 418 Young Offender Open establishments 392 Female establishments 505 During the year in question convicted prisoners were held in all types of prison except the remand prison and remand centres. Remand prisoners were held in the remand prison, remand centres and local prisons. It is not, therefore, possible to provide an average cost for convicted and remand prisoners separately.