Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual cost to the public purse was of sentences of less than and up to 12 months in each year since 2010.
The information requested is not held.
An average cost per prisoner, costs per prison place and overall prison unit costs for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales are, however, routinely published by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). This information is produced annually and published after the end of each financial year on the gov.uk website. The number of prisoners by sentence length is also published on a quarterly basis under the Offender Management Statistics on the gov.uk website.