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Probation: Finance

Volume 457: debated on Wednesday 7 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the expected outturn against planned expenditure is of (a) the National Probation budget for 2006-07 and (b) the budget of each probation area for 2006-07. (123187)

The information is as follows:

(a) The information you requested for the National Probation Service, which includes the 42 National Probation Boards, budgets held centrally on behalf of Boards e.g. Drug Testing and Treatment Orders and the central costs for the National Probation Directorate (NPD) is:

£ million

Resource budget

882.6

Forecast outturn

880.0

Capital budget

7.2

Forecast outturn

6.0

(b) The following table shows the most recent 2006-07 budget and forecast outturn information for the 42 National Probation Boards, including resource and capital. Outturn costs are made up of actual expenditure to mid-February and a forecast to the end of the year. Due to various factors in the way that budgets are allocated there will be further additional budgetary allocations and reductions made to boards before the end of the financial year. These figures are therefore subject to revision.

Probation boards forecast outturn 2006-07

£000

Boards

2006-07 budget (February data)

2006-07 forecast outturn

Variance

Avon and Somerset

19,819

19,625

-194

Bedfordshire

8,471

8.604

133

Cambridgeshire

9,311

9,440,

129

Cheshire

15.739

15,367

-372

Cumbria

7,952

8,073

121

Derbyshire

12,997,

12,847

-150

Devon and Cornwall

19,710

19,338

-372

Dorset

8,237

8,469

232

Durham

10,284

10,294

10

Essex

19,010

18.238

-772

Gloucestershire

6,948

6,988

40

Hampshire

23,122,

23,138

16

Hertfordshire

10,609

10,346

-263

Humberside

16,194

15,946

-248

Kent

20,414

20.264

-150

Lancashire

21,508

21,085

-423

Leicestershire

13,855

13,572

-283

Lincolnshire

8,938

l9,061

123

Norfolk

10,631

10,568

-63

Northamptonshire

8,843

8,679

-164

North Yorkshire

9,512

9,322

-190

Nottinghamshire

18,223

18,868

645

Staffordshire

15,777

16,140

363

Suffolk

9,467

9,300

-167

Surrey

10,081

9,647

-434

Sussex

17,068

16,943

-125

Teesside

13,071

13,0411

-30

Thames Valley

24,362

24,262

-100

Warwickshire

6,765

6,857

92

West Mercia

13,642

13,476

-166

Wiltshire

7,615

7,855

240

Greater Manchester

47,062

47,565

503

Merseyside

28,595

28,812

217

Northumbria

27,050

27,234

184

South Yorkshire

24,138

24,238

100

West Midlands

53,542

53,792

250

West Yorkshire

38,297

38,297

0

London

137,651

140,352

2,701

Dyfed-Powys

8,088

8,088

0

Gwent

10,946

10,741

-205

North Wales

11,751

11,517

-234

South Wales

24,465

24,063

-402

Total

829,759

830,352

593