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Mr. Charles Irving
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average cost of periods of imprisonment served by offenders convicted of offences of violence.
Dr. Summerskill
I regret that it is not possible to isolate the separate cost of maintaining prisoners convicted of offences of violence. The estimated average weekly cost of maintaining an inmate in Prison Department establishments in the financial year 1973–74 was £43.