HL Deb 17 January 1983 vol 437 cc1268-9WA
Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge

asked Her Majesty's Government:

To state the cost to public funds of maintaining a prisoner for a week in Brixton Prison.

Lord Elton: It

is not possible to quote costs for individual prisons. Brixton is a local prison, and the average cost per inmate per week at all local prisons in 1980–81 was £168.

A new costing system, which will lead to the compiling of costs on an individual establishment basis, starts on 1st April 1983.