Prisons: Utilities
(asked on 13th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much her Department has spent on utility bills in prisons which have been officially closed in each of the last five years.
Where the Ministry of Justice has closed prisons, the level of services, such as heating, water and electricity, is reduced to that necessary to maintain the fabric of the buildings and ensure the sites remain safe and secure until final disposal.
The expenditure on utility bills in prisons which have been officially closed in each of the last five years is set out in the table below:
Utilities costs of prisons officially closed in the past five years | |
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Financial year | £ |
2012-13 | 4,410,825 |
2013-14 | 2,754,572 |
2014-15 | 1,699,752 |
2015-16 | 1,867,753 |
2016-17 (to December 2016) | 508,359 |
Footnotes
1. Utilities includes: fuel; electricity; gas; and water & sewage.
2. The costs shown reflect invoices which have been submitted and paid. There is a time lag between services which have been supplied and the submission of invoices by suppliers. The figures may not, therefore, reflect the extent of the services received during the period.
3. The figures provided are drawn from our central accounting system and although care is taken when processing data, this may be subject to the inaccuracies and inputting errors inherent in any large scale recording system.
4. Expenditure includes that at local (establishment) level and central (MoJ Estates Directorate) level.