Justice written question – answered at on 4 April 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average cost to the public purse was of the accommodation of a (a) male offender, (b) female offender and (c) female offender in a women's rehabilitation centre in the last year for which figures are available.
The average overall annual cost per prisoner place in 2009- 10 was:
Male: £39,719
Female: £56,415
This includes prison related overheads met centrally by the National Offender Management Service. This is based on the cost of male and female prisons; where there is a prison holding both male and female prisoners, the data has been allocated to the major use as at
The costs for women's centres differ significantly across the country as the provision varies both in terms of size and scope. Women's community services support community options for the courts that provide alternatives to a woman being remanded or given short sentences. These services cost less than prison; however these costs should be set alongside probation costs for managing community sentences and associated costs e.g. costs of approved premises, which has been estimated as £26,000 per bed place annually.
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