§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the cost to date of keeping Cordelia Laird in Holloway prison.
§ Mr. HurdThe cost of keeping particular persons in custody is not available; nor, at present, are the costs of individual penal establishments. The average weekly cost of keeping a person in custody in a female penal establishment during 1982–83, the latest year for which figures are available, was £308.