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Written question asked by Lord Beecham (Labour) on Wednesday, 3 December 2014, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 17 December 2014. It was answered by Lord Faulks (Conservative) on Tuesday, 23 December 2014 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Prison Sentences

Question

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the budget for providing courses for indeterminate sentence prisoners convicted of (1) sex offences, and (2) other offences, in each of the last three years.

Answer

The National Offender Management Service's central accounting system does not separately identify details of budgets allocated for the provision of courses for all prisoners serving indeterminate sentence, or by conviction categories. Budgets associated with such expenditure are primarily met through establishment baseline funding and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by examining locally held records at each establishment, disaggregating and then collating the costs that relate to the relevant categories of offenders and courses.

There is no set departmental guidance on the proportional allocation of individual budgets. Prison budgets are compiled annually based on an assessment of operational business needs and may vary from year to year according to changes in Departmental priorities.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL3404
Session
2014-15
Subjects
Finance Prisoners Prison sentences Rehabilitation
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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