§ Mr. Whitakerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the present case load per probation officer in this country, compared with the previous 10 years; and what percentage of probation officers are at present untrained, compared with the previous 10 years.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsThe following Table gives the latest available information:
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A. PERSONS APPOINTED FOR PROBATION OF THE FIRST TIME AS OFFICERS Year Appointed after training Appointed without training Percentage appointed without training 1955 57 3 5 1956 63 20 25 1957 50 46 48 1958 77 56 42 1959 107 53 33 1960 91 114 56 1961 104 92 47 1962 92 105 53 1963 129 67 34 1964 171 79 32 1965 260 57(*) 18 1966 (up to 30th September) 211 30 (†) 12 (*) Twenty-seven of these were formerly employed by discharged prisoners' aid societies or in the approved school welfare service. (†) Including 6 former employees of voluntary prisoners' aid societies.
B. AVERAGE CASELOADS FOR WHOLE TIME BASIC GRADE PROBATION OFFICERS Year Male officers Women officers 1955 … … … 55.9 38.1 1956 … … … 58.9 37.7 1957 … … … 62.5 38.7 1958 … … … 64.2 40.8 1959 … … … 64.9 39.9 1960 … … … 61.1 40.6 1961 … … … 60.6 42.4 1962 … … … 59.3 42.1 1963 … … … 59.9 41.9 1964 … … … 56.6 42.2 1965 … … … 55.8 41.2
NUMBERS OF PERSONS CONVICTED OF CAPITAL MURDER, SENTENCED TO DEATH AND HANGED IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1945–1965 Year Number of persons convicted of capital murder* Number sentenced to death Number subsequently executed 1945 … … 20 20 10 1946 … … 30 29 19 1947 … … 35 27 11 1948 … … 40 38 8 1949 … … 33 32 15 1950 … … 38 33 19 1951 … … 22 21 15 1952 … … 41 39 22 1953 … … 26 26 15 1954 … … 25 21 11 1955 … … 30 29 12 1956 … … 32 28 — 1957 (1st January to 20th March)* … … 13 13 — 1957 (21st March to 31st December)* … … 6 5 2 1958 … … 9 9 5 1959 … … 6 6 5 1960 … … 9 8 5 1961 … … 9 7 5 1962 … … 4 4 3 1963 … … 4 4 2 1964 … … 7 7 2 1965 (1st January to 8th November)† … … 15 15 — * The first column of figures includes all convictions of murder before 21st March, 1957, when the Homicide Act 1957 came into force. From 21st March, 1957 it includes convictions of capital murder under section 5 of the Homicide Act and of murders which attracted the death penalty under section 6 of the Act (repeated murders). † The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 came into force on 9th November, 1965.