§ Mr. ConwayTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the amounts of public funds allocated to bail information schemes.
§ Mr. John PattenWith effect from April 1992 probation service expenditure will be cash limited and areas will receive hypothecated grant for bail information schemes. The level of hypothecated grant for each probation area in 1992–93 is shown in the table. Expenditure on bail information schemes was not separately identified prior to 1992–93.
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Probation area Hypothecated grant £ Avon 71,014 Bedfordshire 52,472 Berkshire 129,462 Buckinghamshire 47,118 Cambridgeshire 0 Cheshire 23,202 Cleveland 23,724 Cornwall 0 Cumbria 77,905 Derbyshire 37,108 Devon 96,807 Dorset 59,446 Durham 25,958 Essex 16,062 Gloucestershire 0 Hampshire 38,538 Hereford and Worcester 45,609 Hertfordshire 45,174 Humberside 59,142 Kent 0 Lancashire 26,985 Leicestershire 51,356 Lincolnshire 55,824 Greater Manchester 196,702 Merseyside 238,994 Norfolk 88,616 Northamptonshire 0 Northumbria 118,462 Nottinghamshire 0 Oxfordshire 0 Shropshire 77,842 Somerset 34,200 Staffordshire 74,289 Suffolk 37,461 Surrey 30,598 East Sussex 76,443 West Sussex 67,181 Warwickshire 23,928 West Midlands 322,184 Wiltshire 25,678 North Yorkshire 0 South Yorkshire 99,851 West Yorkshire 166,907
Probation area Hypothecated grant £ Dyfed 22,265 Gwent 0 North Wales 20,746 Powys 0 South Glamorgan 36,352 Mid Glamorgan 0 West Glamorgan 51,697 Inner London 457,172 North East London 27,831 South East London 48,283 South West London 14,959 Middlesex 111,198 Total 3,452,745
§ Mr. ConwayTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the definition of low and high risk bailees; and what information sources magistrates have available to them in order to decide whether or not to remand in custody or on bail.
§ Mr. John PattenThere is no such definition. Relevant information is provided to magistrates by the Crown prosecutor and the defendant or a legal representative. Magistrates may also call for information from court duty probation officers, police officers, sureties and others.