Probation
(asked on 13th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of probation services in each of the last 10 years.
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, nominal1 |
2018/192 | £892,900,000 |
2017/18 | £815,200,000 |
2016/17 | £850,200,000 |
2015/16 | £968,800,000 |
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 |
2009/10 | £898,800,000 |
1Figures have been rounded and show actual costs
2The 2018/19 data is finalised but subject to audit
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 and 2015/16 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. These costs (post 2014/15) include spend on both the NPS and CRCs.