To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what expenditure his Department and its predecessor incurred on the Probation Service in each year since 2000. (277806)

Expenditure on probation services is as follows:

Information for 2008-09 is not yet available. The financial data include probation boards, the National Probation Directorate and (from 2004-05) the National Offender Management Service. Comparisons over a long period are difficult due to machinery of government changes and accounting methodology changes.