Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the (a) estimated number of offenders to be allocated to community rehabilitation companies and (b) actual number of offenders so referred have an effect on the overall contract price.

Community Rehabilitation Companies are paid according to the predicted volume of services they will be required to provide in a year. Payments are then adjusted at the end of the year to reflect actual volumes working within agreed contractual volume bands.