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Mrs. Adamson
asked the Home Secretary what is now the estimated annual cost of feeding, clothing and housing an inmate at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, one of His Majesty's prisons and a Borstal institution, respectively, as compared with the annual rates of cost in August last?
Sir J. Anderson
It is not possible to estimate annual rates of cost for different parts of the financial year. The most recent available figures are for the year ended 31st March, 1939, and are as follow:—
| — | Maintenance, i.e. Victualling, Clothing, Medicines, Fuel, etc. | Full Cost, Including Staff and Overhead Charges, etc. | ||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Local Prison | 23 | 9 | 6 | 124 | 2 | 2 |
| Borstal Institution | 32 | 13 | 6 | 153 | 5 | 0 |
| Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. | 25 | 10 | 0 | 138 | 19 | 2 |