| Heading: |
Prison Accommodation: Costs |
| Question ID: |
1746620 |
| UIN: |
17678 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5174 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Fred Thomas
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Fred Thomas
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the forecasted cost to the public purse was of adding 20,000 places to the prison estate (a) in total and (b) per place in October 2021. |
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true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-06 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
The Department’s estimate of the total cost of completing the additional 20,000 places to the prison estate at the point of the SR21 settlement was c.£5.2bn and this in turn equated to an average of c.£257k per place. |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |