Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 8 February 2023.
Chris Law
Scottish National Party, Dundee West
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average (a) prison population and (b) cost per prisoner was in 2022.
Damian Hinds
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice
The unit costs for 2021/22 are not yet finalised and will be published in due course. In the meantime, the link below contains information around the previous year’s unit costs. This shows that the average population across the year was 78,959 and the overall cost per prisoner was £48,409 per annum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-performance-data-2020-to-2021
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