Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average daily cost is of providing meals for each prisoner who is (a) on remand and (b) serving a criminal sentence.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
The average food cost per prisoner per day for all those held within public sector prisons in England and Wales for the fiscal year ending March 2014 was £1.98. This figure has been calculated from food cost figures for year 2013-14 and the average prisoner population for the same period. All figures are the latest auditable figures available.