§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which London prisons overspent their allocated budget in 1995. [29719]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility 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 Richard Tilt to Mr. Tom Cox, dated 22 May 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about which London prisons overspent their allocated budget in 1995.Budgets are allocated for a financial year and adjusted periodically during the year. Provisional outturn figures for 1995/96 show that Belmarsh, Brixton, Holloway, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs prisons exceeded their revised budget allocations for that year.