Details of expenditure on inter-prison transfer and court escort services, including the daytime staffing of court facilities and docks in courts by escort contractors for each year since 2001 are set out in the following table:
£ million 2001-02 105.1 2002-03 111.1 2003-04 116.1 2004-05 126.5 2005-06 140.7 2006-07 150.5
Details of expenditure for the financial year 2007-08 on a monthly basis are as follows:
£ million April 5.4 May 4.8 June 24.9 July 13.3 August 16.8 September 12.7
Some of these payments do not necessarily relate to the months the actual costs were incurred.
Neither set of figures include costs of locally managed prisoner transfers. These are not recorded centrally.