To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether his Department plans to use prison officer accommodation for providing additional prisoner accommodation; and if he will make a statement. (192971)

The Ministry of Justice has no plans to use prison officer accommodation for providing additional prisoner accommodation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what food allowances for inmates of contracted-out prisons are stipulated within the relevant contract; what these are for each prison; and how much was paid to privately run prisons for food for inmates in each of the last five years. (193001)

The nature of the PFI contracts means that we monitor price against service delivery to ensure compliance with the contract and assure value for money, but we do not measure a fixed level of cost for the provision of food for prisoners, and these data are not specifically reported or monitored as part of the contract.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what measures his Department is considering in order to provide additional prisoner accommodation; and if he will make a statement. (193016)

The Government have committed resources to a major expansion of prison capacity. It is intended that we achieve an overall net capacity of just over 96,000 places by 2014. We have already created around 20,000 places since 1997.