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Mr. Foster
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the average weekly cost in 1978–79 of keeping a male inmate in a dispersal prison, a closed training prison, a local prison, a remand centre, an open prison, a borstal, a young persons' centre and a detention centre.
Mr. Whitelaw
As shown in the annual report on the work of the prison department 1978—Cmnd. 7619, paragraph 16—the average weekly costs in 1977–78—the latest year for which information is available—were:
| £ | |
| Six Category A/B dispersal prisons | 187 |
| Other closed training prisons | 91 |
| Local prisons and remand centres | 85 |
| Open prisons | 72 |
| Borstals and YP centres | 104 |
| Detention centres | 104 |