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Prisons: Food

Answer

The following table shows the average daily cost of food for prisoners whose meals are directly provided by the public Prison Service for the last five years for which data is available. Figures for contracted out prisons were provided by my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Justice (David Hanson) on 26 February 2008, Official Report, column l504W.

£
	2006-07	2005-06	2004-05	2003-04	2002-03
Acklington	1.75	1.80	1.58	1.57	1.40
Ashwell	1.75	1.96	1.85	1.96	2.08
Askham Grange	1.66	1.41	2.02	1.49	1.81
Aylesbury	2.29	1.88	1.76	1.58	1.66
Bedford	2.15	2.10	1.96	1.85	1.82
Belmarsh	2.50	2.21	1.94	2.12	1.62
Birmingham	1.91	1.87	1.88	1.52	1.48
Blantyre House	1.66	1.54	1.46	1.40	1.54
Blundeston	2.16	2.06	2.08	2.06	1.62
Brinsford	2.29	1.89	1.75	1.68	1.80
Bristol	1.89	1.82	1.58	1.58	1.53
Brixton	1.71	1.62	1.63	1.58	1.51
Brockhill	1.48	1.94	2.59	1.84	1.90
Bullwood Hall	1.95	1.98	2.62	2.45	2.34
Canterbury	2.30	2.12	2.12	1.98	1.96
Cardiff	1.76	1.76	1.63	1.67	1.53
Castington	1.98	2.05	2.03	1.85	2.47
Channings Wood	1.66	1.74	1.72	1.58	1.43
Chelmsford	1.69	2.11	2.20	2.08	1.68
Coldingley	2.19	2.08	2.05	1.96	1.76
Dartmoor	1.88	1.88	1.79	1.71	1.63
Deerbolt	2.18	2.00	1.97	1.63	1.77
Dorchester	2.11	1.75	1.80	1.80	1.65
Dover	2.08	2.36	2.47	2.22	1.31
Downview	2.09	1.87	1.88	1.97	1.90
Drake Hall	2.46	2.22	1.73	1.76	1.67
Durham	1.89	1.72	2.09	1.82	2.01
East Sutton Park	1.54	2.30	2.31	2.08	2.02
Eastwood Park	1.80	1.89	1.77	1.85	2.07
Elmley (inc. Standford Hill)	1.93	2.83	1.93	1.86	1.62
Erlestoke	2.25	2.00	1.96	1.80	1.48
Everthorpe	1.88	1.74	1.86	1.84	1.47
Exeter	2.07	1.95	1.89	1.65	1.46
Featherstone	1.86	1.74	1.72	1.58	1.71
Feltham	2.77	2.71	3.41	3.00	2.39
Ford	2.06	1.76	1.94	1.90	1.65
Foston Hall	2.22	1.83	1.91	1.75	1.56
Frankland	2.00	2.21	1.67	1.98	1.98
Full Sutton	2.15	2.01	1.76	1.73	1.87
Garth	2.01	1.74	1.69	1.57	1.69
Gartree	1.89	2.08	2.07	1.72	1.84
Glen Parva	1.91	2.01	1.88	1.94	2.01
Gloucester	2.06	2.06	1.96	1.95	1.97
Grendon/Spring Hill	1.13	1.79	1.86	1.81	1.59
Guys Marsh	2.03	1.97	1.91	1.93	1.82
Haslar	2.33	1.68	1.53	1.62	1.94
Haverigg	1.91	1.74	1.81	1.72	1.59
Hewell Grange	2.45	2.52	1.61	1.51	1.53
High Down	1.94	2.01	2.04	1.89	1.87
Highpoint (inc Edmunds Hill)	2.06	2.53	1.96	1.90	1.28
Hindley	1.95	1.89	2.25	1.99	1.89
Hollesley Bay (inc Warren Hill)	1.09	1.99	1.81	1.55	1.35
Holloway	2.41	2.52	2.42	1.84	1.89
Hull	1.81	2.05	1.83	1.85	1.43
Huntercombe	2.90	3.54	3.33	2.59	2.65
Kingston	2.33	2.10	2.07	2.62	2.49
Kirkham	2.91	2.72	1.98	2.13	1.93
Kirklevington	1.71	1.68	1.66	1.55	1.20
Lancaster Castle	2.40	1.95	1.55	1.65	1.53
Latchmere House	1.11	1.27	1.20	1.46	1.33
Leeds	1.82	1.64;	1.56	1.60	1.41
Leicester	1.90	2.01	1.93	1.86	1.94
Lewes	2.16	2.05	2.15	2.02	1.98
Leyhill	2.04	2.61	1.56	1.30	1.27
Lincoln	1.56	1.70	1.62	1.47	1.77
Lindholme	1.68	1.60	1.82	2.12	2.14
Littlehey	1.67	1.65	1.52	1.43	1.40
Liverpool	1.86	1.83	1.87	1.96	1.77
Long Lartin	2.33	2.01	1.97	1.85	2.51
Low Newton	2.40	2.41	2.28	1.63	1.69
Maidstone	1.84	1.73	1.71	1.74	1.63
Manchester	1.96	1.98	1.73	1.97	1.89
Moorland (closed + open)	2.32	2.31	1.71	2.36	2.33
Morton Hall	1.88	1.81	1.99	1.63	1.28
Mount	2.01	1.92	1.79	1.67	1.61
New Hall	2.00	2.13	2.13	2.10	1.96
North Sea Camp	1.84	2.11	1.69	1.60	1.41
Northallerton	1.83	1.57	2.22	1.71	1.40
Norwich	2.04	1.57	1.49	1.63	1.62
Nottingham	1.98	2.04	1.67	1.76	1.82
Onley	2.10	2.00	2.43	2.78	2.27
Parkhurst (inc. Albany and Camp Hill)	2.00	2.03	1.83	1.68	1.61
Pentonville	1.78	1.84	1.79	1.73	1.62
Portland	2.01	2.00	2.35	1.70	1.86
Preston	2.08	2.22	2.09	2.08	1.66
Ranby	1.89	2.07	1.66	1.86	1.72
Reading	2.12	1.89	1.36	1.36	1.36
Risley	1.97	1.79	1.79	1.84	1.52
Rochester (inc. Cookham Wood)	2.63	2.50	2.46	1.92	1.85
Send	2.45	2.40	2.23	1.97	1.84
Shepton Mallet	1.91	1.91	1.90	1.66	1.72
Shrewsbury	1.95	1.56	1.87	1.65	1.78
Stafford	2.14	1.65	1.53	1.58	1.74
Stocken	1.85	2.04	1.84	1.81	1.75
Stoke Heath	2.17	2.09	2.18	2.02	1.81
Styal	2.17	2.24	2.42	2.09	2.01
Sudbury	1.82	1.53	1.48	1.52	1.53
Swaleside	1.72	1.68	1.61	1.60	1.67
Swansea	1.81	1.75	1.63	1.86	1.89
Swinfen Hall	2.03	2.34	1.77	1.82	2.13
Thorn Cross	2.35	1.97	1.83	1.62	1.84
Usk and Frescoed	1.57	1.66	1.61	1.45	1.21
Verne	1.77	1.69	1.71	1.52	1.58
Wakefield	1.65	1.28	1.49	1.67	1.65
Wandsworth	2.16	1.79	1.64	1.79	1.71
Wayland	2.18	2.04	2.04	1.95	1.72
Wealstun	1.99	2.05	1.81	1.88	1.76
Weare	¹—	¹—	1.87	1.74	1.79
Wellingborough	2.22	2.03	2.09	1.94	2.03
Wellington	2.07	1.96	2.16	1.69	2.26
Wetherby	2.57	2.24	1.94	2.16	2.52
Whatton	1.67	1.32	1.60	1.58	1.19
Whitemoor	1.99	1.80	1.71	1.73	1.73
Winchester	2.52	1.99	2.03	1.99	1.69
Wormwood Scrubs	1.87	2.03	2.03	2.06	1.91
Wymott	1.86	1.77	1.73	1.74	1.63
¹ Closed.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

472 c2629-31W; 191792

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Food Prisons

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