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Written statement made by Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour) on Tuesday, 20 December 2005 in the House of Lords, on behalf of the Home Office.

National Probation Service and National Offender Management Service: Annual Report

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Fiona Mactaggart) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. 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 for Contracted Prisons.

Performance against the National Offender Management Targets for 2004–05
KPI AnnualTarget Outturn
Public Protection Targets
Category A Escapes 0 0
Total Escapes from Prisons and Prison Escorts
Less than0.05% 0.03
Escapes from
Contracted Escorts (NOMS)
1:20,000 1:38,894 Reducing Re-Offending Targets
Education Awards (Probation Service) Basic Skills starts
32,000 34,199
Basic Skills Awards achieved
8,000 9,451
Education Awards (Prisons) Basic skills awards achieved 56,080 63,628
Key Work Skills awards 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 Community Punishment completions 30,000 38,473
Offending Behaviour Programmes completions (Probation Service) 15,000 15,595
Offending Behaviour Programmes (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 than10% 11.8%
Self-inflicted Deaths Less than112.8 per100,000 113.7 per100,000
Serious Assault Less than1.56% 1.56%
Overcrowding (public prisons) Less than24% 23.7%
Overcrowding (contracted prisons) Less than34.5% 26.1
Organisational Targets
Staff Sickness (public prisons only) Less than12.5 days/person 12.7
Staff Sickness (Probation Service) Less than9 days/person 12.3
Ethnic Minority Staff (public prisons only) At least6% 5.7%
Regionally set employment targets for ethnic minority staff 8.4% 10.91 (Apr-Dec 2004)
Clear proposals in court reports for minority ethnic offenders 95% 97%

Secondary information

Type
Written statement
Reference
676 c182-3WS 
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