§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the residential institutions for ex-prisoners which his Department(a) funds in full and (b) funds in part; and if he will make a statement; [7336]
(2) what was the total expenditure on residential institutions for ex-prisoners for each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [7337]
§ Mr. SackvilleProbation committees are now responsible for grants to the voluntary and private sectors to support the provision of accommodation for offenders, 189W including released prisoners, with the exception of the Langley House Trust which continues for the time being to receive a grant directly from the Home Office. Total grants have been as follows:
- 1992–92: £7.4 million
- 1992–93: £8.4 million
- 1993–94: £9.8 million
- 1994–95: £10.1 million
- 1995–96: £10.0 million.
In addition, approved probation hostels, while catering primarily for bailees and offenders serving community sentences, are also available to released prisoners who are subject to probation service supervision. Home Office current expenditure on approved hostels has been:
- 1991–92: £18.2 million
- 1992–93: £24.3 million
- 1993–94: £26.2 million
- 1994–95: £23.3 million
- 1995–96: £24.3 million.
Net operating cost per prisoner per week in cash terms (£) Type of establishment 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 11993–94 11994–95 Local prisons and remand centres 388 437 526 441 448 Contracted out establishments — — 539 385 409 Dispersal prisons 616 807 816 659 678 Category B training prisons 368 438 518 404 416 Category C training prisons 297 363 387 336 351 Adult male open prisons 293 316 331 269 282 Young offender closed establishments 390 452 492 415 416 Young offender open establishments 550 551 634 473 456 Young offender remand establishments — — — 420 450 Female establishments 563 629 657 540 512 1 The figures for 1993–94 and 1994–95 are on a different basis from those for earlier years which include notional inter-establishment charges for goods and services and other non-cash costs (e.g. opportunity cost of rent and depreciation).