§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, further to his answer of 4 December, Official Report, column 711, he will publish the per capita costs per prisoner for the three years and five prisons referred to therein.
§ Mr. MellorThe information requested is provided in the following table:
§ Mr. HurdAs part of my responsibility for the security service in this country I am naturally interested in how other countries arrange these matters. As I indicated in the House on 3 December at column 941, each country has devised its own system to suit its own constitutional circumstances.