§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the proposed prison budget for Wandsworth prison for 1996; and what it was for each year since 1990. [16244]
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§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from A. J. Pearson to Mr. Tom Cox, dated 26 February 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about the budget allocations for Wandsworth prison between 1990 and 1996.Prison Service budgets are allocated to prisons in financial years rather than in calendar years. The table below therefore gives details of the budgets for the financial years 1991–92 to 1996–97.
Financial year Budget allocation £ 1991–92 14,201,000 1992–93 16,303,220 1993–94 21,027,624 1994–95 21,201,390 1995–96 21,516,600 1996–97 20,353,000 1 Proposed. It is not possible to provide a budget figure for 1990–91 as reliable records are not available for that year.