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Probation

Volume 463: debated on Monday 23 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders were being monitored by each local probation service in each of the last 10 years. (150792)

Information on the number of persons supervised by each probation service area in England and Wales at 31 December in each year from 2002 to 2005 is shown in the following table. Data for 2006 are due to be published on 31 July 2007. The data at local area level were not sufficiently robust for publication prior to 2002.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Total persons supervised by each probation service area at 31 December, 2002 to 2005

2002

2003

2004

2005

Avon and Somerset

3,587

3,751

3,989

4,120

Bedfordshire

1,983

2,306

2,509

2,303

Cambridgeshire

1,974

2,148

2,269

2,635

Cheshire

2,548

2,605

2,763

3,256

Cumbria

1,805

1,837

1,924

1,881

Derbyshire

3,560

3,616

3,715

3,864

Devon and Cornwall

3,980

3,991

3,767

3,910

Dorset

1,680

1,567

1,647

1,781

Durham

2,175

2,247

2,255

2,371

Dyfed-Powys

1,241

1,293

1,290

1,341

East and West Sussex

4,159

4,473

4,798

4,515

Essex

3,905

4,169

4,691

5,098

Gloucestershire

1,435

1,470

1,605

1,723

Greater Manchester

12,896

13,514

14,386

14,988

Gwent

2,458

2,369

2,486

2,445

Hampshire

5,164

5,085

5,458

5,896

Hertfordshire

2,311

1,767

2,837

2,983

Humberside

3,498

2,512

3,785

3,979

Kent

4,633

4,719

4,619

4,685

Lancashire

6,029

5,995

6,083

6,421

Leicestershire

3,340

3,505

3,462

3,709

Lincolnshire

1,662

1,976

2,032

1,882

London

31,992

30,690

34,011

41,665

Merseyside

7,912

8,704

9,249

10,297

Norfolk

2,273

2,270

2,290

2,430

North Wales

2,060

2,104

2,242

2,398

North Yorkshire

1,697

1,876

1,984

2,237

Northamptonshire

1,998

2,133

2,205

2,303

Northumbria

5,686

5,848

5,742

5,944

Nottinghamshire

4,869

5,361

5,540

5,581

South Wales

5,525

5,657

6,197

6,394

South Yorkshire

5,830

6,108

6,299

6,403

Staffordshire

3,559

3,646

3,753

3,865

Suffolk

1,393

1,563

1,684

1,879

Surrey

1,535

1,663

1,726

1,799

Teesside

3,071

3,347

3,489

3,402

Thames Valley

5,408

5,011

5,394

5,883

Warwickshire

1,368

1,387

1,428

1,412

West Mercia

3,184

3,277

3,356

3,747

West Midlands

16,336

16,697

18,225

18,124

West Yorkshire

9,590

9,992

10,768

11,042

Wiltshire

1,555

1,690

1,509

1,503