PRISONERS (MAINTENANCE COST).

HC Deb 01 December 1920 vol 135 cc1277-8W

Mr. SWAN

asked the Home Secretary the average cost of maintenance of prisoners in September, 1914, and September, 1920?

Mr. SHORTT

These statistics are compiled at the end of each financial year; hence figures are not available for September, 1914, and September, 1920. The nearest information that can be given is the average annual charge per inmate in local prisons, convict prisons, and preventive detention prisons. These annual charges are

	£	s.	d.
1913–1914	37	15	8
1914–1915	43	4	6
1919–1920	105	4	8

When the value of labour and incidental receipts have been deducted the net cost is

	£	s.	d.
1913–1914	27	10	11
1914–1915	30	15	10
1919–1920	95	9	11