§ Sir Nicholas FairbairnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the cost per week, month or year of keeping a prisoner in the various categories of prison.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the prison service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from A. J. Butler to Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, dated 16 June 1993:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General, Mr. Lewis, from the office, to reply to your recent Question about the cost of keeping a prisoner in the various categories of prison.
The average weekly cost of keeping prisoners in the financial year 1991–92—the latest year for which information has been published—was as follows:
Weekly cost Type of establishment £ per prisoner per week Local prisons and adult remand centers 437 Dispersal prisons 807 Category B training prisons 438 Category C training prisons 363 Open adult prisons 316 Closed youth establishments 452 Open youth establishments 551 Female establishments 629 All operational establishments 442