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Mr. Randall
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are serving community punishment orders; and what estimate he has made of the cost of administration of community punishment orders. [104002]
Hilary Benn
The number of people starting supervision by the Probation Service under community punishment orders during 2001 was 52,186. The estimated expenditure on community punishment orders in 2001–02 was £92.2 million. This excludes expenditure on combined community punishment and rehabilitation orders.