Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much money has been raised for the public purse by the (a) closure and (b) sale of women’s prisons since 2010.

Since 2010 there has been one prison closure in the women’s prison estate which was in June 2016 when HMP and Young Offender Institute (HMP&YOI) Holloway was closed. In the financial year 2015-2016 the overall resource expenditure of the site was £21,246,449. A full breakdown of costs per prison and other prison performance statistics can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2015-to-2016

We expect to make an announcement on the sale of the former prison later this year.