Proceeding contribution from Lord Mayhew of Twysden (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 27 April 2009. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Prisons and Probation.

Prisons and Probation

My Lords, in the context of the item in the Statement that speaks of savings—cuts might be a more expressive word—that the probation service will be required to make, is it not the case that probation officers spend only 25 per cent of their time on front-line work with offenders, as the director-general of NOMS, Mr Phil Wheatley, told some of us here last month? Is that not deeply unsatisfactory? What steps will the Secretary of State take to reduce the bureaucracy that evidently takes up the rest of their time?

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Type: Proceeding contribution
Reference: 710 c32
Session: 2008-09
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Subjects: Contracts Cost effectiveness Construction Competition Private sector Prisons Public sector Probation Standards Civil society HMP Belmarsh HMP Manchester HMP Birmingham Barking and Dagenham HMP Wolds Probation boards Probation trusts HMP Bure HMP Wellingborough HMP Hewell HMP/YOI Doncaster HMP Buckley Hall HMP Littlehey HMP Blakenhurst Maghull Runwell
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Prisons and Probation

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