§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is to be the prison budget for Wormwood Scrubs prison for 1996; and what was it for each of the years 1990 to 1995. [16320]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from A. J. Pearson to Mr. Tom Cox, dated 26 February 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me. in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about Wormwood Scrubs prison.Prison Service budgets are allocated to prisons in financial years rather than in calendar years. The table below therefore gives details of budgets for the financial years 1991–92 to 1996–97.395W
Financial year Budget allocation £ 1991–92 14,652,000 1992–93 15,596,000 1993–94 20,299,000 1994–95 20,359,000 1995–96 19,801,000 1996–97 120,132,000 1 Proposed. It is not possible to provide a budget figure for 1990— 91 as reliable records are not available for that year.