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Mr. Grocott
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average cost of the imprisonment of those prisoners sentenced to periods of four years or more.
Dr. Summerskill
In England and Wales the estimated weekly cost of maintaining an adult male prisoner in the financial year 1973–74 was £41. I regret that it is not possible to isolate the cost of maintaining prisoners sentenced to periods of four years or more.