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.
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.