Supervision and Monitoring Schemes

HC Deb 15 March 2004 vol 419 cc147-8W

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what areas intensive supervision and monitoring schemes will be implemented. [159805]

Paul Goggins

Currently there are 14 Intensive Supervision and Monitoring Schemes (ISMs) running in Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Grimsby, Hastings, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Nottingham and Stoke funded or part-fun Jed by the National Probation Service until March 2004.

The proposals contained in Reducing Crime—Changing Lives and the provisions contained in the Criminal Justice Act 2003 will shape the way work with persistent offenders is developed in the future. Many elements of the ISMs will satisfy the requirements of the new generic sentence, and will also contribute to Custody Minus, Intermittent Custody and other intensive interventions such as the Intensive Control and Change Programme.

Future plans to work with persistent offenders will also be incorporated into the regional resettlement strategies which are currently being developed.