§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons have served prison sentences for non-payment of fines of less than £25 at Winson Green prison in the past three months.
§ Mr. MellorThe information requested is not available centrally.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons have served sentences of less than one week at Winson Green prison, Birmingham, in the past three months.
§ Mr. MellorAccording to the provisional records held centrally, about 20 persons were initially received into Birmingham prison in the last three months of 1984 to serve sentences of less than one week.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the annual cost to public funds of a prisoner at Winson Green prison, Birmingham; and how this changes for sentences of less than one week.
§ Mr. MellorThe costs of holding different types of prisoner in penal establishments are not available; nor, at present, are the costs of individual establishments. During the financial year 1982–83, the latest year for which information is available, the average annual cost of keeping a person in a local prison or remand centre was £10,440.