Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on probation in each of the last five years; and how much of that expenditure was allocated to (a) the National Probation Service and (b) community rehabilitation companies in each year since 2015.

The Ministry of Justice spend on Probation Trusts, Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and the National Probation Service (NPS) in each of the last five years across England & Wales is included below.

Expenditure for Financial Years 2012-13 to 2016-17 (£m)

To note within the table:

1. Figures have been extracted from the published National Offender Management Service’s Annual Report and Accounts for each financial year, or restated/adjusted figures where appropriate. They also include some financial data that have been extracted from the relevant years’ Management Accounts records associated with the probation activities. However, for 2016-17 financial year, figures have been adjusted after the Accounts publication to reflect further reconciliation work on the actual outturn costs for NPS and CRCs.

2. For financial year 2014-15, Probation Trust spend reflects the costs of delivering probation services for two months of operation to 31 May 2014.

3. On 1 June 2014 responsibility for providing Probation services transferred from Probation Trusts to the new National Probation Service and the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies. This split for 2014-15 is described below:

• The figures for the NPS relate to the newly formed National Probation Service from 1 June 2014.

• The consolidated financial results from CRCs for the period 1 June 2014 to 31 January 2015 (whilst they were in public ownership) are included against CRCs. The figures for February and March 2015, following the transfer of these CRCs to new owners on 31 January 2015, are also included.

4. Financial year 2015-16 includes transition and mobilisation costs associated with implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms.