§ Mrs. Curtis-ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average cost is of maintaining a prisoner in(a) Class A, (b) Class B, (c) Class C and (d) open prison. [89547]
§ Hilary BennThe average cost per prisoner for 2001–02 by category of prison is given in the table.
These figures are establishment costs only, expressed in resource terms and exclude any share of headquarters overheads. Establishment cost per prisoner figures cannot therefore be compared with the overall Prison Service cost per prisoner figure, which includes all expenditure.
Category Average establishment cost per prisoner 2001–2002 £ Dispersal (Cat A) prisons 42,443 Category B prisons 24,059 Category C prisons 18,828 Open prisons 21,267