Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2021 to Question 58345, what the food budget is per prisoner per day in 2020-21, for each public sector prison in England and Wales.

Prison Governors have the authority to determine how they spend the overall non-pay budget for their prison. An element which makes up the non-pay budget is food which in 2020-21 was calculated on a formula of £2.12 per prisoner per day. Governors ultimately use their discretion to determine how much is specifically allocated from within their budget for food.