To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with reference to the answer of 16 April 2007 to the hon. Member for Sunderland South, Official Report, column 480W, on prison places, what the average capital cost was of providing each place in the prisons built in each year since 1997, including all land acquisition, construction, legal and conveyancing costs and other associated costs. (168494)

All prisons constructed since 1997 and run by the private sector have been procured under PFI. The following table provides the net present value figure at the time of the contact award. This figure includes construction, legal, conveyancing and other costs associated with the contract. Land acquisition costs paid by the authority are deemed commercial in confidence and therefore are not able to be disclosed.