Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have carried out work under the Community Payback project in York in each year since 2010.

Since the transition to Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) in 2014, the closest reportable area to York is Humberside, Lincolnshire & North Yorkshire CRC. To provide a consistent time series, data for the corresponding Trusts to that CRC have been provided up to, and including, the transition period during 2014.

The number of offenders that have completed Community Payback (CP) Requirements, by Year, is included in the table below:

'Completed' means that all hours ordered by the court were worked. Community Payback requirements that were revoked by the court, which reached the end of the operational period without being fully worked (for a Suspended Sentence or Supervision Default Order) or where the offender died or left England and Wales are not counted.

An offender will be counted once in each year they complete a CP requirement, whether those requirements relate to the same sentence or different sentences.

Community Payback schemes enable offenders to serve a community sentence and make reparation to communities in a constructive and suitably demanding way. Constructive work may also help offenders reform by re-integrating back into the community through more intensive rehabilitation.