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Prisons: Therapeutic Residential Units

Volume 470: debated on Monday 7 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much has been spent on prison-based therapeutic residential units in each of the last five years; and how many beds are in each prison-based unit. (173547)

The number of therapeutic community places in prisons is as follows:

Therapeutic Community Places

Prison

Number

Grendon

235

Dovegate

200

Blunderston

40

Gartree

23

Send1

40

1 Women.

It is not possible to separate out the costs of the therapy units at these prisons without incurring considerable and disproportionate cost.