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Home Office

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Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the change was in the performance of the National Probation Service against its performance measures on (a) compliance, including orders which are allowed to continue and (b) offender behaviour programmes (i) during 2003-04 and (ii) between April and September. [206150] Paul Goggins: (a) Compliance. The tables set out the compliance figures achieved by the National Probation Service in 2003-04 and in April to September 2004. Table 1: 2003-04 (Percentage) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Month (a) Compliance: Orders and licences (b) Compliance: Orders only April 2003 63 56 May2003 62 54 June 2003 61 53 July 2003 64 58 August 2003 62 56 September 2003 61 55 October 2003 63 57 November 2003 61 55 December 2003 62 56 January 2004 62 56 February 2004 65 57 March 2004 62 56 Total 62 56 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table 2: 2004-05 (Percentage) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Month (a) Compliance: Orders (b) Compliance Orders (c) Compliance: Orders (d) Compliance: Orders and licences only: and licences including only including those those breached and breached and allowed to allowed to continue continue April 2004 63 57 -- -- May 2004 66 59 79 76 June 2004 67 59 80 76 July 2004 67 61 79 76 August 2004 64 58 78 75 September 2004 64 58 79 76 Total 65 59 79 76 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Compliance was originally defined as the proportion of orders with no second unacceptable failure to comply (no third in licence cases). The results on this basis for 2003-04 and April-September 2004 are shown in Tables 1 and 2 for (a) orders and licences combined and (b) for orders alone. Both show that compliance has improved by three percentage points in 2004-05 compared to the previous year. Since May 2004, compliance has been measured on a wider definition that includes orders which have been allowed to continue by the courts following breach action by the NPS. Columns (c) and (d) of Table 2 show the results to the end of September. On this basis, NPS is exceeding the target of 70 per cent., having achieved 79 per cent. compliance for orders and licences combined and 76 per cent. for orders alone. (b) Offending Behaviour Programmes. The tables set out the number of completions of offending behaviour programmes achieved by the National Probation Service during 2003-04 and in April to September 2004. These are set against the monthly profiled targets (i.e. the number of completions expected at the end of each month). The data is presented cumulatively to show progress towards the annual target which was 15,000 in each year. Awards for 2003-04 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Actual Profile Percentage April 2003 978 943 104 May 2003 1,759 1,886 93 June 2003 2,706 2,829 96 July 2003 3,737 4,001 93 August 2003 4,675 5,019 93 September 2003 5,693 6,091 93 October 2003 6,785 7,514 90 November 2003 7,873 8,738 90 December 2003 9,188 10,457 88 January 2004 9,972 11,452 87 February 2004 11,087 12,959 86 March 2004 13,130 15,000 88 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Awards for 2004-05 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Actual Profile Percentage April 2004 852 1,250 68 May 2004 1,811 2,500 72 June 2004 3037 3,750 81 July 2004 4443 5,000 89 August 2004 5629 6,250 90 September 2004 6827 7,500 91 October 2004 -- 8,750 -- November 2004 -- 10,000 -- December 2004 -- 11,250 -- January 2005 -- 12,500 -- February 2005 -- 13,750 -- March 2005 -- 15,000 -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

206150; 429 c320-2W;429 c359-60W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Enforcement Probation orders National Probation Service for England and Wales Standards

Contains statistics

Yes

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