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<p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) charged Penal Reform International
£1,000 for running a full day visit to HMP Grendon in June 2014, involving ten Indian
Prison Officers, two Indian Training Academy officials and one Penal Reform International
representative. The charge covered the costs of NOMS staff screening and arranging
the visit and HMP Grendon’s staff costs for escorting and providing refreshments for
the thirteen delegates.</p><p> </p><p>Most of the international visits to prisons
that NOMS arranges are at the request of other governments and are not charged. NOMS
applies charges in a few cases to cover its costs where, as on this occasion, a private
company or non-governmental organisation approaches NOMS as an intermediary and has
a funded programme of which the visit is part.</p>
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