Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
(asked on 5th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of prison maintenance requirements.
This question was answered on 12th December 2022
The annual allocation for prison maintenance is determined as part of the Spending Review process, which determines departmental budgets. This year, the department is investing £225m in custodial capital maintenance and £235m in day-to-day facilities management to improve the overall condition of the prison estate.