HC Deb 25 January 1995 vol 253 cc231-2W
Mr. David Nicholson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the annual cost at current prices of keeping a man in a high security prison.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Responsibility 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 Derek Lewis to Mr. David Nicholson, dated 25 January 1995: The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the annual cost of keeping a prisoner in a high security prison. The annual average net operating cost per prisoner place in dispersal prisons in 1993–4 was £26,671.