Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average (a) prison population and (b) cost per prisoner was in 2022.
The unit costs for 2021/22 are not yet finalised and will be published in due course. In the meantime, the link below contains information around the previous year’s unit costs. This shows that the average population across the year was 78,959 and the overall cost per prisoner was £48,409 per annum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-performance-data-2020-to-2021