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Probation: Finance

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 15 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the (a) budget and (b) budget deficit was for each probation board in each of the last five years; and what the (i) budget and (ii) projected budget deficit is for each board for 2008-09. (227077)

The following table shows the year-end budget revenue allocations for the 42 probation boards in each of the last five years, plus the revenue budget allocated to-date in the present financial year for the probation boards and six probation trusts. It also shows the agreed overspends that boards were allowed to carry forward in 2006-07 and 2007-08, plus the latest information from boards on forecast overspends in the present financial year. Information on overspends before 2006-07 is not held centrally and could be obtained by approaching 42 probation areas, which would only be at disproportionate cost.

The budget and forecast overspend figures for 2008-09 are likely to be subject to further revision.

Probation boards end-year budgets

£000

2008-091

2007-08

2006-07

2005-06

2004-05

2003-04

Board

Revenue

Overspends

Revenue

Overspends

Revenue

Overspends

Revenue

Revenue

Revenue

Avon and Somerset

20,815

20,661

19,771

18,273

16,851

15,612

Bedfordshire

9,375

8,863

8,499

150

8,180

7,182

6,517

Cambridgeshire

10,246

9,727

9,273

136

8,895

7,375

6,835

Cheshire

14,885

14,715

15,688

15,393

13,427

11,692

Cumbria

8,656

50

8,217

119

7,897

271

7,466

6,241

6,279

Derbyshire

14,619

13,490

12,891

12,166

11,088

10,335

Devon and Cornwall

21,209

20,225

19,638

18,184

15,646

15,667

Dorset

8,855

117

8,522

324

8,277

194

7,989

7,338

7,307

Durham

10,773

10,720

10,245

9,513

8,697

7,820

Essex

19,454

19,977

18,922

17,839

16,220

14,849

Gloucestershire

7,757

7,379

6,959

47

6,524

5,975

5,874

Hampshire

24,787

24,338

23,057

21,872

20,026

18,427

Hertfordshire

11,527

11,265

10,569

9,618

8,691

8,409

Humberside

18,249

17,187

16,130

14,964

13,010

12,422

Kent

21,913

20,993

364

20,340

19,052

16,760

16,322

Lancashire

23,957

22,979

21,394

20,251

18,837

18,600

Leicestershire

15,404

14,402

13,805

13,071

11,778

11,086

Lincolnshire

9,786

9,292

9,038

7

8,446

7,469

7,134

Norfolk

11,622

50

11,168

10,608

10,205

8,477

7,927

Northamptonshire

9,621

9,116

8,816

8,149

7,158

6,920

North Yorkshire

10,655

150

10,236

41

9,478

8,998

7,937

7,486

Nottinghamshire

19,644

19,057

18,117

489

17,190

14,861

14,232

Staffordshire

17,308

16,393

15,913

48

14,361

12,319

11,769

Suffolk

9,987

9,643

9,445

8,771

7,583

7,361

Surrey

10,632

10,396

36

10,081

9,421

7,779

7,784

Sussex

18,005

17,373

16,991

15,677

14,033

12,789

Teesside

13,415

150

13,606

13,052

12,178

10,954

10,613

Thames Valley

26,148

25,405

24,373

23,421

20,795

19,787

Warwickshire

7,303

6,937

6,743

217

6,492

5,698

5,452

West Mercia

15,344

15,445

13,642

13,197

11,774

11,188

Wiltshire

8,050

39

7,874

7,720

109

7,224

5,964

5,510

Greater Manchester

51,467

48,309

47,532

45,645

40,985

38,521

Merseyside

30,858

29,283

28,820

28,643

25,798

24,621

Northumbria

29,180

27,646

26,964

26,005

22,999

22,113

South Yorkshire

25,488

24,282

4

24,058

54

23,041

20,858

20,381

West Midlands

58,769

55,055

53,377

50,140

44,076

41,932

West Yorkshire

42,269

40,036

38,193

36,226

33,366

30,986

London

152,404

143,404

137,416

786

132,637

107,888

110,390

Dyfed-Powys

8,580

8,295

8,058

24

7,541

6,478

5,784

Gwent

11,232

11,252

10,930

10,018

8,938

8,029

North Wales

12,348

11,786

411

11,696

20

11,027

10,067

9,044

South Wales

25,246

25,226

1,531

24,402

23,098

20,917

19,328

Total

897,841

556

860,172

2,830

828,817

2,552

786,995

690,312

661,130

1 As at 1 October 2008.