§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which prisons the per capita costs per prisoner are (a) the lowest and (b) the highest in each of the past three years.
§ Mr. MellorInformation on average weekly net operating costs per inmate for each penal establishment for 1984–85 and 1985–86 was published in the annual reports on the "Work of the Prison Department" for those years (Cmnd. 9699, appendix 2, table D, Cmnd. 11,
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Reported racial incidents by borough 1983 to 1986: Number of incidents in which arrests were made by borough 1986 Reported incidents 1983 1984 1985 19861 to 2 December Incidents with arrests 19861 to 2 December No. 1 Area Waltham Forest including part of Epping Forest 29 20 66 55 9 Redbridge including part of Epping Forest 24 21 71 84 6 Islington 31 60 57 73 4 Haringey 9 11 34 29 1 Enfield including those parts of Welwyn Hatfield and Broxbourne within the MPD 30 34 48 31 1 No. 2 Area Hackney 31 29 37 43 2 Tower Hamlets 234 414 277 189 45 Havering 5 22 18 10 0 Barking and Dagenham 28 19 28 43 11 Newham 99 140 229 208 22 No. 3 Area appendix 2, table F). Equivalent information for 1983–84 was published in the "Prison Department Financial Report 1983–84", a copy of which is in the Library (see appendix 1, table 7).
The reports show that the establishments having the highest and lowest average weekly costs per inmate in these years are as follows:
Highest Lowest 1983–84 Albany Kirkham 1984–85 Parkhurst Rudgate 1985–86 Lindholme Rudgate Special factors affecting Albany's and Lindholme's costs were mentioned in the reports for the relevant years.