Belmarsh Prison

HC Deb 07 July 1993 vol 228 cc128-9W

Mr. Peter Bottomley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the weekly cost of remanding an individual in Belmarsh prison.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange a reply.

Letter from Mr. D. Lewis to Mr. Peter Bottomley, dated 7 July 1993:

The Home Secretary has asked me to write to you in response to your Parliamentary Question about the weekly cost of remanding an individual in Belmarsh prison.

The cost for 1992–93 is not yet available. It will be published in the Annual Report for 1992–93 on the work of the Prison Service in November 1993.

The 1991–92 figure for the average weekly cost of holding an individual in Belmarsh prison was £673. A rise in the average weekly population from 558 in 1991–92 to 732 in 1992–93 is expected to reduce this cost considerably.