§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what level of reserves he intends to allow local probation boards to maintain; what arrangements he has made to permit probation committees to carry forward reserves into local probation boards; and if he will make a statement. [142451]
§ Mr. BoatengOur expectation is that the new local probation boards will meet their current year's costs from within the 100 per cent. Home Office grant funding which they will receive under the new funding arrangements, and will not need to hold reserves. The new direct funding relationship will enable us to respond to the needs of individual boards to address circumstances where reserves might previously have been used. Boards will be able to carry forward up to 2 per cent. of their grant funding into a new financial year.
The existing local probation committees will not be able to transfer unspent funding to their successor local probation boards, as the latter will be new corporate bodies. Arrangements have however been made which, subject to Treasury approval, will enable the current committees to give up predicted underspends, generally of up to 4 per cent. of their grant, and equivalent amounts to be paid to their successor boards.
§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the names of those members of probation committees whom he has designated to continue as members of local probation boards, their qualifications for office and their party political affiliations. [142425]
§ Mr. BoatengI have tabled the names of those members of probation committees who have been designated to continue as members of local probation boards.
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Members Avon and Somerset John Sutton Dr. Jennifer Gunnings Malcolm Cotton Nicholas Bernard Bedfordshire Helen Sismey-Durrant Stephen Singh Alice Crampin Susan Squire Cambridgeshire Janet Jones Colin Lattimore Michael Sullivan Susan Morris Cheshire David Woulds Keneth McKinley Francis O'Freil Clare Hoy Cumbria Christine Egan Robin Brown James Coote Thomas Gordon
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Members Devon and Cornwall Nicola Taylor Sandra Shaw Lynda Price Richard Ellis Derbyshire David Ward June Lambert Ian Hurst William Kirkland Dorset Brian Whittingham Dorothy Cooper Jennifer Simm Roger Ketley Durham William Raine Anthony Woolfe Hilary Shaw Josephine Turnbull Essex Caroline Maiden Nicola Moulds Robert Eschle John Hilton Gloucester Christopher Marshall David James Alan Davies Rosemary Steele Hampshire Diane Thomas Simon Mantle Gabrielle Edwards Melanie Da Cunha Hertfordshire Anne Webster Jagtar Dhindsa Lillian Edwards-Hamilton Neville Wade Humberside Lesley Mole Roy White Darren Hale Peter Isles Kent Lady Julia Pender Michael Brown Brian Fernando Elizabeth Tullberg Lancashire Susan Hughes Prafulchandra Upadhyay Isabel Lea Valerie Burke Leicester Ivan Ould Uday Dholakia John Thomas Keith Smithson Lincolnshire Judith Parker Anthony Worth Sylvia Williams Max Winslow London Daphne Wickham Angela Chamber Max Telling Kenneth Ashken Carole Markham Norfolk Dr. Gwyneth Boswell Shiela Long Nigel Dixon David Pearson Northamptonshire John Tate Samuel Garden Michael Sawford Shirley Ogden
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Members Northumbria Brian Dodds Christine Tweedie George Mitchell Amanda Sita Main Nottinghamshire Wendy Start Kathleen Alick William Dargue Dr. Peter Pratt Greater Manchester Michael Harkin Sylvia Seddon Jon Hardy Peter Turner Merseyside Elizabeth Barnett Iris Shanahan Ronald Barker Stanley Mayne Staffordshire William Finney Linda Kemp Alexander Gribben Gerald Hindley Suffolk Sabhash Modasia David Rowe John McLoughlin Eileen Crane Surrey Michael Head Lady Thomas of Walliswood Lesley Myles Linda Hawkins Sussex John Shippham [Kenneth Melsom—subsequently withdrew] Christopher Crook Joan Fraser Teeside Keneth Bellamy Michael McGory Mavis Lacey Paul Whitehouse Thames Valley Lady Stephanie North George Dunford Brian Harper Dr. Gillian Cohen West Mercia Patricia Bradbury Colin Watkins David Williams Ruth Crofts Warwickshire Angela O'Boyle Abdul Salaam Ian Cronin Anne Henderson West Midlands Enid Showell Michael Ager Thomas Stone Colin Fishwick Wiltshire Malathy Sitaram Leslie Baker Jennifer Swift John Reynolds North Yorkshire Michael Doyle Jack Stephenson George Robson Dorianne Butler South Yorkshire Beryl Seaman John Hinchcliffe Ann Chapman Oswald Billings
Members West Yorkshire Francis Colvill Earnest Clark Judith Poole Gillian Pratt South Wales Christine Lovell Peter Raynor Gareth Morgan-Jones Gwent Joyce Morgan Cynthia Parkes Robert Hatton-Evans Wilfred Phillips North Wales Brenda Roberts Carol Hughes Christopher Thomas Alison Lea-Wilson Dyfed/Powys Rev. Alan Charters Eileen Jobling Ina Williams Martin Morris Designation to continue into membership of the boards reflects the competency framework for board members, a copy of which has been placed in the Library. Political affiliation was not one of the factors taken into account. The analysis of the make-up of the boards has not yet been carried out and is likely to be done after the board memberships are complete in mid January 2001.
§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the names of the chairmen-designate of local probation boards whom he has appointed, their qualifications for office and their party political affiliations. [142424]
§ Mr. BoatengI have tabled the names of chairmen-designate of local probation boards. In the case of Dyfed/Powys and Leicestershire those designated have yet to indicate their willingness to serve, so are not listed.
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Local probation board Chairman-designate Avon and Somerset John Christensen Bedfordshire Robin Fletcher Cambridgeshire Colin Lattimore Cheshire David Nelson Cumbria Mr. Gordon Derbyshire John Raine Devon and Cornwall Anthony Smith Dorset Margaret Topliss Durham Robert John Williams Essex Alan Tobias Gloucestershire David James Hampshire Dermot Sean Boyle Herefordshire Nicholas Moss Humberside Alexander Semple Kent Peter Alan Gammon Lancashire Leslie Robinson Lincolnshire Basheer Ahmed London Suhail Aziz Greater Manchester Lovranjan Kapila Merseyside Nigel Mellor Norfolk Charles Winstanley Northamptonshire Michael Prescod Northumbria Elizabeth Derrington Nottinghamshire Wendy Start Staffordshire Gerald Hindley Suffolk Gordon MacArthur Surrey Owusu Abebrese Sussex Christopher Cook Teesside Kenneth Bellamy
Local probation board Chairman-designate Thames Valley Lorna Beckford Warwickshire Charles Jordan West Mercia Patricia Bradbury West Midlands Parmjit Singh Wiltshire Andrew Edwards North Yorkshire Jack Stephenson South Yorkshire Beryl Seaman West Yorkshire Miranda Hughes South Wales Richard Penn North Wales Brian James Gwent John Raymond Evans Their particular qualifications are various, but in each case they have demonstrated, through the appointment process, that they best met the demands of the framework of competences for chairs of probation boards, a copy of which has been placed in the Library.
Political affiliation was not one of the factors taken into account. The analysis of the make up of the boards has not yet been carried out and is likely to be done after the board memberships are complete in mid January 2001.
§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of each probation committee applied unsuccessfully to continue as members
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Probation boards—cash limit allocations Cash limit allocation 2001–02 (£ million) 1Cash limit allocation 2002–03 (£ million) 1Cash limit allocation 2003–04 (£ million) Percentage increase 2001–02 to 2002–03 Percentage increase 2003–03 to 2003–04 Avon and Somerset 12.603 12.793 13.487 1.51 5.42 Bedfordshire 4.801 5.018 5.440 4.51 8.42 Cambridgeshire 5.184 5.417 5.873 4.51 8.42 Cheshire 8.616 9.278 10.060 7.69 8.42 Cumbria 4.816 5.015 5.438 4.13 8.42 Derbyshire 8.041 8.403 9.111 4.51 8.42 Devon and Cornwall 12.221 12.772 13.848 4.51 8.42 Dorset 5.119 5.197 5.478 1.51 5.42 Durham 5.943 6.816 7.390 14.69 8.42 Essex 12.218 12.769 13.844 4.51 8.42 Gloucestershire 4.547 4.615 4.866 1.51 5.42 Hampshire 13.694 14.747 15.989 7.69 8.42 Hertfordshire 6.831 7.018 7.609 2.73 8.42 Humberside 8.760 9.646 10.458 10.11 8.42 Kent 13.477 14.084 15.271 4.51 8.42 Lancashire 14.482 15.135 16.410 4.51 8.42 Leicestershire 8.048 8.411 9.119 4.51 8.42 Lincolnshire 5.263 5.500 5.964 4.51 8.42 Norfolk 6.196 6.582 7.137 6.23 8.42 Northamptonshire 4.740 5.161 5.596 8.89 8.42 North Yorkshire 5.455 6.031 6.539 10.55 8.42 Nottinghamshire 10.547 11.022 11.950 4.51 8.42 Staffordshire 8.602 8.986 9.743 4.47 8.42 Suffolk 4.965 5.189 5.626 4.51 8.42 Surrey 6.541 6.640 7.000 1.51 5.42 Sussex 10.238 10.699 11.601 4.51 8.42 Teesside 7.439 7.786 8.442 4.66 8.42 Thames Valley 15.641 15.876 16.737 1.51 5.42 Warwickshire 3.938 3.997 4.219 1.51 5.53 West Mercia 8.656 9.046 9.808 4.51 8.42 Wiltshire 4.636 4.844 5.252 4.51 8.42 Greater Manchester 29.972 30.424 32.909 1.51 8.17 Merseyside 18.072 18.886 20.477 4.51 8.42 Northumbria 16.443 17.184 18.631 4.51 8.42 South Yorkshire 14.638 15.298 16.587 4.51 8.42 West Midlands 30.416 31.787 34.465 4.51 8.42 West Yorkshire 23.353 24.405 26.461 4.51 8.42 Greater London 88.022 89.347 94.193 1.51 5.42 Dyfed-Powys 4.382 4.943 5.360 12.81 8.42 of local probation boards; what are the party political affiliations of these unsuccessful applicants; and if he will make a statement. [142422]
§ Mr. BoatengThe analysis of members selected as continuing members from the existing committees has not yet taken place.
Many committee members have applied to be members of the boards in the current round of recruitment of members and it is only when this is complete in mid January that the total number of members of committees going through to the boards will be known.
§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each local probation board(a) the proposed cash limit before property charges for (i) 2001–02, (ii) 2002–03 and (iii) 2003–04, (b) the percentage increase which the figures for (A) 2002–03 and (B) 2003–04 represent over the cash limits for the previous year and (c) his estimate of inflation for (1) 2001–02, (2) 2002–03 and (3) 2003–04. [142449]
§ Mr. BoatengThe information requested is set out in the table. It is emphasised that the figures for 2002–03 and 2003–04 are provisional. The estimate for inflation in all three years is 2.5 per cent. per annum, using the Treasury deflator figure.
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Probation boards—cash limit allocations Cash limit allocation 2001–02 (£ million) 1Cash limit allocation 2002–03 (£ million) 1Cash limit allocation 2003–04 (£ million) Percentage increase 2001–02 to 2002–03 Percentage increase 2003–03 to 2003–04 Gwent 5.471 6.685 7.248 22.18 8.42 North Wales 5.824 6.765 7.335 16.16 8.42 South Wales 14.146 14.783 16.029 4.51 8.42 Total 503.000 525.000 565.000 4.37 7.62 1 Provisional
§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his estimate is of the property charges to be deducted from the cash limit of each local probation board for(a) 2001–02, (b) 2002–03 and (c) 2003–04. [142450]
§ Mr. BoatengThe total estimate for all local probation boards in 2001–02 is £3.3 million. This is based on a 6 per cent. charge on the estimated value of the property assets of about £55 million. Individual figures are not available for each probation board, because the property charge will reflect the value of the property occupied by each board during 2001–02. Local probation boards will be able to estimate these costs and the Home Office will be collecting the data required in the new year. In future years, the property charges will again depend on the property occupied in that financial year.