HC Deb 15 November 2000 vol 356 cc700-1W
Mr. Llwyd

To 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. Boateng

The 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.

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