§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders have undergone an OASys assessment in the last 12 months; and what the average cost per assessment was. [155961]
§ Paul GogginsOn 9 January 2004, the latest date for which figures from both services are available, the Prison Service OASys IT system held assessments on some 1,400 offenders while the National Probation Service OASys IT system held assessments on some 63,800 offenders. Figures are nor held centrally on use of the paper-based OASys system that pre-dated the computerised system in the National Probation Service.
Reliable unit costs are not yet available. The Prison Service and National Probation Service expect to have figures towards the end of this year when implementation of OASys IT in the two Services is further advanced.