Prison Accommodation
(asked on 23rd June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many additional prison places have been purchased from private prison providers at each prison in each month since January 2014; and what the cost has been of such additional purchases.
The Ministry of Justice has purchased the following Additional Prison Places (APPs) in each privately run prison per month since February 2014. There were no APPs purchased in January 2014.
Prison | Feb-14 | Mar-14 | Apr-14 | May-14 | Jun-14 | Total Estimated cost |
Altcourse | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | £610,000 |
Dovegate | 73 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 73 | £207,869 |
Forest Bank | 96 | 96 | 96 | 96 | 96 | £628,058 |
Lowdham Grange | 0 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | £134,914 |
Peterborough (male only) | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | £230,000 |
Parc | 0 | 43 | 63 | 63 | 63 | £336,000 |
Total Estimated Costs | *£2,146,841 |
*Costs have been calculated using current contract daily prisoner rates which may be subject to change as a result of:
a) Contractual Pricing Indexation changes at individual prisons during the period the APP places have been purchased for, where applicable;
b) Actual utilisation of APPs purchased.
The total available places for each prison are as described for June 14, totals are not cumulative.
The average cost per place of the above is approximately £13,000 p.a..
This compares with the average Direct cost per place across all prisons in 2012-13 of £28,000.
Sensible measures have been taken to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to deal with any temporary increases in population. These include creating additional places in prisons in a safe and decent way and ensuring that prisons reflect the needs of the current population.
We will end this Parliament with more adult male prison places than we inherited, more hours of work in prisons than we inherited, more education for young detainees than we inherited and a more modern, cost effective prison estate than we inherited.