Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public funding his Department has allocated to prisons in (a) each of the last five financial years, (b) the current financial year and (c) each of the next three financial years.

The below table states the public funding allocated to prisons in the last five and current financial years.

In relation to future years, the Deputy Prime Minister is developing his plans for allocating this funding and will announce more details in due course.