HC Deb 30 April 2001 vol 367 cc539-40W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the figures(a) nationally and (b) for each probation area for the number and proportion of cases under supervision by the Probation Service where breach action was taken in accordance with national standards in 2000–01. [158934]

Mr. Boateng

[holding answer 26 April 2001]: The figures for compliance with the national standard on breach are provided by the Association of Chief Officers of Probation audit of probation areas and are shown in the table. This gives the results of the most recent audit. The audit covers supervision of probation orders, community service orders (as community punishment orders and community rehabilitation orders were at the time) and licence cases only. The national totals show that breach action was taken in 65 per cent. of cases in accordance with national standards; in a further 5 per cent. of cases, management authorisation not to breach was given, also in line with national standards.

Offenders breached
Area Number breached Percentage
Avon 45 83.3
Bedfordshire 13 76.5
Berkshire 3 37.5
Cambridgeshire 18 64.3
Cheshire 27 69.2
Cornwall 4 100

Offenders breached
Area Number breached Percentage
Cumbria 25 80.6
Derbyshire 41 75.9
Devon 23 54.8
Dorset 19 86.4
Durham 22 95.7
Dyfed 3 100
East Sussex 21 75
Essex 19 79.2
Gloucestershire 18 62.1
Greater Manchester 67 68.4
Gwent 14 87.5
Hampshire 39 69.6
Hereford and Worcestershire 14 73.7
Hertfordshire 12 85.7
Humberside 46 65.7
ILPS 52 36.9
Kent 17 31.5
Lancashire 60 85.7
Leicestershire 38 80.1
Lincolnshire 24 96
Merseyside 68 79.1
Mid Glamorgan 12 66.7
Middlesex 33 45.8
NELPS 31 66.0
Norfolk 25 59.5
North Wales 15 62.5
North Yorkshire 5 23.8
Northamptonshire 25 75.8
Northumbria 46 68.7
Nottinghamshire 57 87.5
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire 26 56.5
Powys 5 100
SELPS 18 64.3
Shropshire 11 68.8
Somerset 7 50
South Glamorgan 22 71.0
South Yorkshire 48 45.3
Staffordshire 13 38.2
Suffolk 15 88.2
Surrey 14 51.9
SWLPS 5 50
Teeside 45 78.0
Warwickshire 11 73.3
West Glamorgan 12 70.6
West Midlands 62 53.9
West Sussex 17 85
West Yorkshire 50 52.6
Wiltshire 20 100
Total 1,402 65