§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the total annual costs of running Her Majesty's prisons in Oxford and Reading; and what is the average cost per prisoner per week in these prisons.
§ Mr. Mayhew: It is not possible to quote total costs for individual prisons. Oxford is a local prison, and the average cost per inmate per week at all local prisons in 1980–81 was £168. Reading is a closed training prison and the comparable figure was £173.
A new costing system, which will lead to the compiling of costs on an individual establishment basis, starts on 1 April 1983.