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Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Walthamstow, of 16 June 2006, Official Report, column 1423W, on immigration removal centres, what the average cost was, including overheads, of holding a (a) man and (b) woman at an immigration removal centre for one week in 2005-06. [88183]

Mr. Byrne: The average estimated cost of holding a person in immigration removal centres, including overheads, for one week in 2005-06 was £1,230. It is not possible to distinguish costs between male, female and family detainees. Overheads include the costs of escorting, Immigration Nationality Directorate (IND) Detention Services staff and an allocation of IND and central Home Office overheads.
This average cost calculation excludes the three centres operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS), as those HMPS/National Offender Management Service overheads which are not relevant to removal centres are not readily discernible.