Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of offenders are managed by the National Probation Services; and what proportion of offenders the Government estimated would be so managed at the time of that body's creation.

Early indicative estimates of the volumes of offenders starting with Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and the National Probation Service (NPS) annually were published as part of the ‘Transforming Rehabilitation: A Strategy for Reform’ consultation document, which can be found at: https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/transforming-rehabilitation/results/transforming-rehabilitation-response.pdf.

Data on the number of offenders managed by the NPS and CRCs is published each quarter, and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly. The estimates given in the Transforming Rehabilitation consultation document were based on offender starts, not total caseload.