Probation: Private Sector
(asked on 9th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2019 to Question 238275 on Probation: Private Sector, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of probation services in each year between 2010 and 2015.
The total amount spent by the Ministry of Justice on probation services in England and Wales for the years requested is set out in a summary table below.
Financial Years | Probation Expenditure, nominal* |
2014/15 | £851,700,000 |
2013/14 | £804,500,000 |
2012/13 | £832,400,000 |
2011/12 | £819,800,000 |
2010/11 | £874,600,000 |
*Figures have been rounded and show actual costs
The expenditure prior to 2014/15 is for Probation Boards and Trusts. From 2014/15 onwards, responsibility for providing probation services transferred to the new National Probation Service (NPS) and 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). The cost increase in 2014/15 was for transition and mobilisation costs of setting up the NPS and CRCs, as well as closing down Probation Trusts, as part of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms.