§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the present cost per week for keeping a man or woman in prison.
§ Mr. BrittanThe actual present cost per week of keeping a man or woman in prison is not readily available. It is estimated that during financial year 1978–79 the average cost per week of keeping a person in custody was about £112.
§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many men are at present sleeping three to a cell in each prison in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. BrittanOn 13 May, the latest date for which the information is available,262W the Prison Department establishments in England and Wales and the number of men involved were as follows:—
Remand Centres Cardiff 12 Local Prisons Bedford 141 Birmingham 456 Bristol 51 Brixton. 282 Canterbury 108 Cardiff 78 Dorchester 6 Durham 306 Exeter 27 Gloucester 123 Leeds 741 Leicester 174 Lincoln 240 Liverpool 318 Manchester 447 Norwich 132 Oxford 219 Swansea 18 Wandsworth 186 Winchester 174 Wormwood Scrubs 462 Closed Training Prison Shepton Mallet 81 Total 4,782
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking or proposes to take to ensure that mentally abnormal offenders in prison awaiting transfer to National Health Service hospitals are actually transferred.
§ Mr. BrittanI refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to a similar question by him on 12 June.—[Vol.968, c.169.]