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Written statement made by Fiona Mactaggart (Labour) on Tuesday, 20 December 2005 in the House of Commons, on behalf of the Home Office.


National Probation Service/National Offender Management Service

The National Probation Service has today published its Annual Report for 2004–05. The Prison Service and the Office for Contracted Prisons published their Annual Reports and Financial Accounts for 2004–05 on 19 July. Copies of all the Annual Reports have been placed in the Library. Performance against all the National Offender Management Targets for 2004–05 is indicated in the table below. A full breakdown of the performance of both public and contracted prison establishments, in relation to applicable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), will be placed in the Library. The breakdown includes updated figures for those establishments managed by the Office of Contracted Prisons.

Performance Against the National Offender Management Targets for 2004–05 Public Protection Targets
KPI ANNUALTarget OUTTURN
Category A Escapes 0 0
Total Escapes from Prisons and Prison Escorts Less than 0.05% 0.03
Escapes from Contracted Escorts (NOMS) 1:20,000 1:38,894
REDUCING RE-OFFENDING TARGETS
Education Awards Basic Skills starts 32,000 34,199
(Probation Service) Basic skills awards achieved 8,000 9,451
Education Awards (Prisons) Basic skills awards achieved 56,080 63,628
Key Work Skillsawards achieved 120,000 170.558
Drug Treatment and Testing Orders 13,000 10,322
Of which lower intensity orders 1,000 329
Drug Treatment and Testing Order successful completions 35% 36%
Intensive Control and Change Programmes started 1,790 841
Intensive Control and Change Programmes completed 1,100 125
Enhanced CommunityPunishment completions 30,000 38,473
Offending BehaviourProgrammes completions(Probation Service) 15,000 15,595
Offending BehaviourProgrammes (Prisons) 7,000 8,364
Of which Sex Offender Treatment programmes 1,180 1,232
Of which Living Skills Programmes 5,820 7.132
Drug Treatment Programmes Completions (prisons) 3,900 4,902
Employment, Training and Education (ETE) place on release 38,000 41,146
Breach proceedings initiated within 10 days 90% 87%
Proportion of orders and licences in which the offender complies 70% 79%
JUSTICE AND REPARATION TARGETS
Timely Arrival at Court (NOMS) 75% . 79%
Pre-Sentence Reports to the Magistrates courts within 15 days 90% 73%
Victim Contact 85% 93%
DECENCY TARGETS
Mandatory Drug Tests Less than 10% 11.8%
Self-inflicted Deaths Less than112.8 per100,000 113.7 per100,000
Serious Assault Less than1.56% 1.56%
Overcrowding (publicprisons) Less than 24% 23.7%
Overcrowding (contractedprisons) Less than34.5% 26.1%
KPI ANNUALTarget OUTTURN
ORGANISATIONAL TARGETS
Staff Sickness (publicprisons only) Less than 12.5 days/person 12.7
Staff Sickness (ProbationService) Less than 9 days/person 12.3
Ethnic Minority Staff (public prisons only) At least 6% 5.7%
Regionally setemployment targets for Ethnic Minority Staff 8.4% 10.91(Apr-Dec2004)
Clear proposals in court reports for minority ethnic offenders 95% 97%

Secondary information

Type
Written statement
Reference
440 c195-7WS 
Session
2005-06
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP 05/1731
Tuesday, 20 December 2005
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
Subjects
Annual reports National Offender Management Service National Probation Service for England and Wales Standards
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written statement on www.publications.parliament.uk