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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Rowlands: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the expenditure of the probation service in each of the counties of Wales since 1992, indicating the annual percentage increases or decreases on the previous year's expenditure. [11019] Mr. Sackville: Net specified expenditure by probation areas in Wales between 1992-93 and 1995-96, and year-on-year percentage changes are given in the table. The probation areas correspond with the pre-April 1996 counties, with the exception of north Wales, which comprises the former counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 Dyfed Expenditure (£) 1,700,530 1,845,785 2,020,753 2,144,641 Percentage change on -- +8.5 +9.5 +6.1 previous year Gwent Expenditure (£) 2,277,894 2,456,291 2,614,526 2,698,153 Percentage change on -- +7.8 +6.4 +3.2 previous year North Wales Expenditure (£) 2,991,103 3,166,670 3,439,321 3,612,692 Percentage change on -- +5.9 +8.6 +5.0 previous year Powys Expenditure (£) 630,889 701,511 782,941 867,437 Percentage change on -- +11.2 +11.6 +10.8 previous year South Glamorgan Expenditure (£) 3,307,601 3,506,904 3,791,970 4,023,999 Percentage change on -- +6.0 +8.1 +6.1 previous year Mid Glamorgan Expenditure (£) 3,474,121 3,725,125 3,934,732 4,064,822 Percentage change on -- +7.2 +5.6 +3.3 previous year West Glamorgan Expenditure (£) 2,819,039 3,034,418 3,223,813 3,307,664 Percentage change on -- +7.6 +6.2 +2.6 previous year _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

11019; 288 c433W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Expenditure Probation Wales

Contains statistics

Yes