§ Mr. ClaphamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total cost per week of keeping a man in(a) HM prison Wolds and (b) HM prison Lindholme.
§ Mr. JackThe average weekly cost of keeping a person in Wolds remand prison from April 1992, when the prison opened, until December 1992 was £626. Available figures for Lindholme prison, a category C training prison with dormitory accommodation, for the year ending March 1992, show that the average net operating cost per inmate per week was £336. 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.