§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his latest estimate of the average cost per week of maintaining a person in a Scottish prison.
§ Mr. Harry EwingThe estimated total cost of Scottish prisons in the financial year 1976–77, the latest figure available, divided by the daily average population, gives a figure of approximately £80 per prisoner per week. The marginal cost of keeping a single prisoner in the system cannot be exactly estimated but is of course very much less.