To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much expenditure has been incurred from the budgets of (a) prison governors and (b) his Department in subsistence payments to offenders in each of the last five years. (274152)

The expenditure paid by prisons on subsistence payments has been included in the recorded expenditure, for discharge grants. It would incur disproportionate costs to separate the expenditure on subsistence payments from discharge grants as we would need to survey all prison establishments.