§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the overall spending on probation services was for each county in England and Wales in the last 12 months; and what was the average cost of maintaining a person on probation in the last 12 months. [137720]
§ Mr. BoatengThe financial year 1998–99 is the latest year for which the Home Office has details of audited revenue expenditure by Probation Services.
Probation Services' revenue expenditure in England and Wales for the financial year 1998–99 is shown in the table.
701W
Probation services revenue expenditure in England and Wales £ Probation service 1998–99 expenditure England Avon 6,951,677 Bedfordshire 3,762,279 Berkshire 5,778,970 Cambridgeshire 4,236,916 Cheshire 6,396,271 Cornwall 2,770,344 Cumbria 4,241,989 Derbyshire 6,046,441 Devon 7,347,901 Dorset 4,459,880 Durham 4,394,551 Essex 9,220,583 Gloucestershire 4,019,954 Hampshire 9,763,218 Hereford and Worcester 4,471,940 Hertfordshire 5,591,181 Humberside 6,652,265 Kent 10,273,525 Lancashire 10,272,761 Leicestershire 5,714,639 Lincolnshire 4,122,468 Inner London 1 39,188,000 North East London 9,449,257 South East London 6,335,178 South West London 4,660,922 Middlesex 16,908,882 Greater Manchester 25,593,669 Merseyside 15,505,714 Norfolk 4,450,188 Northamptonshire 3,638,041 Northumbria 12,596,167 Nottinghamshire 8,828,196 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire 7,805,070
Probation services revenue expenditure in England and Wales £ Probation service 1998–99 expenditure Shropshire 2,610,026 Somerset 3,879,240 Staffordshire 7,420,133 Suffolk 3,804,565 Surrey 5,757,167 East Sussex 4,465,125 West Sussex 3,511,260 Teeside 5,419,117 Warwickshire 3,495,556 West Midlands 25,768,067 Wiltshire 3,526,718 North Yorkshire 3,904,279 South Yorkshire 12,345,562 West Yorkshire 20,001,100 Wales Dyfed 2,246,946 Mid Glamorgan 3,494,755 South Glamorgan 4,127,093 West Glamorgan 3,345,800 Gwent 4,020,632 North Wales 4,179,887 Powys 845,487 1Pre-audit estimate The estimated annual average cost of maintaining a person on probation in 1998–99 was as follows:
£ Probation Order 1,710 Community Service Order 1,400 Supervision under Children's and Young Persons Act 1969 1,460