Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 17678
Prison Accommodation: Costs
Tabled: 3 December 2024
Answered: 6 December 2024
Named DayQuestion
Fred Thomas
Labour — Plymouth Moor View
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.
Answer
Sir Nicholas DakinThe 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.