bed and board

In August 2023, Alex Chalk, then Conservative Justice Secretary, scrapped the policy of taking bed and board deductions from all future payouts.

A man wrongly convicted of murder has lost a legal challenge to reclaim money he was charged for bed and board during the 11 years he spent behind bars.

Victims of historic miscarriages of justice have been told by the government they must have "bed and board" costs for the time they spent in prison deducted from their compensation payments.

"A few of the luckier poor people got bed and board in the hospital for life. Selection criteria would have been a mix of material want, local politics, and spiritual merit."

She offers free bed and board for the most desperate families, letting them sleep in her grown-up daughter’s old room.