§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the average costings of probation orders and community service orders published in the Home Office probation statistics include an appropriate proportion of probation officers' salaries, office costs and other related expenditure.
§ Mr. MellorYes. The estimation of the average costings is described in paragraph 12.4 on page 115 of "Probation Statistics, England and Wales, 1984", published on 16 January 1986. They include a proportion of all expenditure on the probation service, other than that on the Home Office sponsorship scheme, probation and bail hostels and salaries etc. of probation officers seconded to prison department establishments.