The cost of construction of the Titan prisons has been estimated to be around £350 million each at 2007-08 prices.
The cost of building and operating the Titan prisons, which will be post 2011 spending review period, will be subject to the usual comprehensive spending review processes.
The following table shows the value of both internal and external sales from work done by prisoners in public sector prisons in England and Wales. While the Prison Service would seek to receive revenue where possible it should also be acknowledged that prison industries have a number of other objectives including purposeful activity as well as skills and employment opportunities.
Internal sales1 External sales2 2007-08 30,560 6,010 2006-07 27,571 6,370 2005-06 31,334 3— 2004-05 37,919 43,673 2003-04 40,782 44,370 1 The total sales value of goods and services provided using prisoners for internal consumption, including sales to the Ministry of Justice. The general reduction over the period is predominantly due to the phased implementation of hard charging. 2 Total sales revenue from predominantly private sector organisations. 3 Reliable data are not available for 2005-06 due to a system failure. 4 Data extracted from internal (prison industry) monitoring and recording systems.