Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average amount paid to community rehabilitation companies is in (a) Wales and (b) England for the supervision of an offender on a 12-month order.

Contractual prices specific to each Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) are commercially sensitive. All CRCs are paid on the basis of volumes of offenders entering the system, reducing reoffending and services provided for offenders not allocated to them. The payment mechanism can be found in schedule 11 of their contracts with the Ministry of Justice, which are published on the contracts finder section of gov.uk.

We are carrying out a comprehensive review of our probation reforms, including how we pay CRCs, to look at how we can improve upon the delivery of the service and improve outcomes for offenders and communities. We want to incentivise good resettlement outcomes to cut crime and protect the public.