Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 3546

Prisoners: Per Capita Costs

Tabled: 30 August 2024

Answered: 9 September 2024

Question

Caroline Voaden

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost was of (a) a prison place, (b) the supervision of a person on licence following release from prison and (c) the delivery of a community order by the Probation Service in the latest 12 month

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

Information on the average annual cost per prisoner, cost per prison place and overall prison unit cost for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales is published by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) after the end of each...

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