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Home Office

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Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money is owed within the probation service; and (a) by and (b) to whom it is owed. [73225] Mr. Hilary Benn: The Home Office only has records relating to the outstanding debts on capital raised for Probation Service investment, dating from the period before 1990. The Home Office pays local authorities a grant in respect of the principal and interest on this capital financing debt. A table of the local authority debts, as at 1 April 2001, is provided in the table. Between 1990 and 2001, capital debt was financed by the local authority capital financing standard spending assessment (SSA). Since April 2001 however, local authorities are no longer responsible for Probation Service capital investment. With the advent of the National Probation Service from 1 April 2001, the National Probation Directorate is now collecting and collating the information relating to the 2001-02 accounts for the 42 local probation boards, including any creditors. When this exercise has been completed and audited, the consolidated accounts will be laid before Parliament. Pre-1990 System Loan Debt Outstanding at 1 April 2001 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Probation Service Amount Bristol City Council 430,722 Bedfordshire CC 133,011 West Berkshire DC 462,820 Buckinghamshire CC 494,377 Cambridgeshire CC N/A Cornwall CC 453,636 Derbyshire CC 240,286 Devon CC 448,056 Dorset CC 112,802 Durham CC 279,329 Essex CC 295,496 Gloucestershire CC 180,780 Hampshire CC 228,181 Worcestershire CC 177,729 Hertfordshire CC 7,334 East Riding of Yorkshire Council 486,629 Kent CC 164,705 Lancashire CC 821,006 Leicestershire CC 33,726 Lincolnshire CC 129,383 Norfolk CC 344,554 Northamptonshire CC 251,273 Northumberland CC 11,01,053 South Tyneside MDC 268,905 Oxfordshire CC 74,831 Shropshire CC 151,943 Somerset CC 431,524 Staffordshire CC 1,067,882 Surrey CC 15,230 East Sussex CC 72,207 Middlesbrough UA 566,364 Warwickshire CC 75,529 Walsall MDC 1,718,807 Wiltshire CC 139,003 Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District 3,522,361 LB Croydon 67,801 Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames 6,284 LB Barnet 492,116 LB Enfield 22,322 LB Hillingdon 19,713 LB Hounslow 11,917 LB Newham 12,682 LB Redbridge 234,737 LB Waltham Forest 20,626 Bolton MDC 393,825 Bury MDC 269,132 Manchester City Council 632,816 Oldham MDC 322,559 Rochdale MDC 307,784 Salford City Council 331,033 Stockport MDC 431,116 Tameside MDC 2,183,018 Trafford MDC 3,893,774 Wigan MDC 458,527 North Yorkshire CC 59,430 Barnsley MDC 165,094 Doncaster MDC 131,099 Rotherham MDC 82,032 Sheffield City Council 175,721 Bradford MDC 172,178 Calderdale MDC 68,726 Kirkless MDC 139,253 Leeds City Council 259,145 Wakefield MDC 113,580 Carmarthenshire CBC 164,927 Bridgend CBC 4,069 Cardiff City Council 9,843 Neath Port Talbot CBC 365,970 Newport CBC 194,692 Flintshire CBC 101,809 Powys CBC 92,092 Total 26,671,237 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

73225; 390 c78-9W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Debts Finance National Probation Service for England and Wales

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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