§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the annual cost of keeping a prisoner in each type of English and Welsh prison. [5154]
§ 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. Tony Worthington, dated 25 November 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the annual cost of keeping a prisoner in each type of English and Welsh prison.8WThe net operating cost per prison place in England and Wales in 1995–96 is given in the attached table.
Type of establishment Net operating cost per place per annum £000 Local prison/adult remands 22.8 Contracted-out prisons 17.4 Dispersal prisons 31.4 Category B prisons 20.9 Category C prisons 16.4 Open prisons (male) 13.8 Young offender institutions (closed) (male) 17.5 Young offender institutions (open) (male) 16.7 Remand centres (male) 21.5 Female establishments (local) 27.1 Female establishments (closed) 25.6 Female establishments (open) 15.7