§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the average weekly cost in 1992 of keeping a person in(a) the Wolds remand centre and (b) a state-run prison.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe average weekly cost of keeping a person in Wolds remand prison from April 1992, when 1 he prison opened, until December 1992 was £626. This compares with an average net operating cost for 1991–92 for all prisons run by the Prison Service of £442 per prisoner per week. This comparison is misleading, since unit costs are higher in the period during which a prison opens and is filling with prisoners, as Wolds was doing in 1992. Wolds is now more than 95 per cent. full.