Question follow-through · 80994
Prisons: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated average cost of a prisoner's breakfast is according to the latest available data.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated average cost of a prisoner's breakfast is according to the latest available data.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2025
Answer published
Data about expenditure on food and specific meals is not held centrally. Prison food budgets are determined locally (by the Governor in public sector prisons or the Director in privately managed prisons). They are kept under review as part of normal non-p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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