Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost per prisoner is.
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) routinely publishes average costs per prisoner and prison place based on actual net resource expenditure for each private and public sector prison and in summary form for the whole of the prison estate in England and Wales on an annual basis after the end of each financial year. This information is available on gov.uk.