Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the risk assessment conducted prior to the part-privatisation of the probation service.

The Transforming Rehabilitation programme delivered fundamental reform of the probation system, creating the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Companies and introducing supervision on licence to offenders serving custodial sentences of less than 12 months.

It is standard practice during any significant government programme to assess the potential risks and to seek to mitigate them. The risk assessment conducted during Transforming Rehabilitation contains commercially sensitive information and cannot be published at this stage.