London Probation is already required to complete and submit recall breach reports within the national target of 24 hours. The intention is that existing processes will be improved to ensure compliance with the target and that this work will be undertaken within existing resources. London Probation is committed to working closely with its partner agencies, the Metropolitan police and the National Offender Management Service Public Protection Casework Section, to improve the efficiency of the recall process from the initiating of recall by London Probation through to the arrest by the police. This work is being monitored by the London Criminal Justice Board and the London Director of Offender Management.
The resource budget allocations to individual probation areas from 2001-02 are given in the table. Prior to 2001-02 probation services were delivered through local probation committees which were partly funded by local authorities and were organised on a slightly different basis.
The budget figures shown for 2009-10 may be subject to further change.
Since 2001-02 there have been changes to the budget allocation methodology, plus machinery of government changes and accounting methodology changes that make it difficult to compare figures over a long period.
£000 Revenue Areas 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 2006-07 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02 Avon and Somerset 20,300 20,727 20,661 19,771 18,273 16,851 15,612 14,891 15,856 Bedfordshire 9,556 9,571 8,863 8,499 8,180 7,182 6,517 6,196 5,526 Cambridgeshire 10,092 10,341 9,727 9,273 8,895 7,375 6,835 6,168 6,365 Cheshire 15,133 15,571 14,715 15,688 15,393 13,427 11,692 10,012 8,984 Cumbria 8,626 8,376 8,217 7,897 7,466 6,241 6,279 5,710 5,288 Derbyshire 14,042 15,168 13,490 12,891 12,166 11,088 10,335 9,516 8,534 Devon and Cornwall 20,306 21,037 20,225 19,638 18,184 15,646 15,667 13,967 12,740 Dorset 9,067 9,408 8,522 8,277 7,989 7,338 7,307 6,876 5,761 Durham 10,615 11,148 10,720 10,245 9,513 8,697 7,820 7,431 5,975 Essex 19,325 20,319 19,977 18,922 17,839 16,220 14,849 14,502 13,700 Gloucestershire 7,677 7,858 7,379 6,959 6,524 5,975 5,874 5,102 4,943 Hampshire 24,868 25,614 24,338 23,057 21,872 20,026 18,427 18,079 13,841 Hertfordshire 11,468 11,750 11,265 10,569 9,618 8,691 8,409 8,654 7,034 Humberside 17,377 18,380 17,187 16,130 14,964 13,010 12,422 11,090 9,414 Kent 21,449 21,798 20,993 20,340 19,052 16,760 16,322 15,116 13,673 Lancashire 24,516 24,406 22,979 21,394 20,251 18,837 18,600 16,859 14,307 Leicestershire 15,237 15,668 14,402 13,805 13,071 11,778 11,086 9,911 8,774 Lincolnshire 9,436 9,794 9,292 9,038 8,446 7,469 7,134 6,127 5,606 Norfolk 11,582 11,980 11,168 10,608 10,205 8,477 7,927 7,171 6,543 Northamptonshire 9,389 9,673 9,116 8,816 8,149 7,158 6,920 6,018 5,131 North Yorkshire 9,827 10,350 10,236 9,478 8,998 7,937 7,486 6,877 5,701 Nottinghamshire 19,303 19,686 19,057 18,117 17,190 14,861 14,232 13,220 11,658 Staffordshire 16,885 17,260 16,393 15,913 14,361 12,319 11,769 10,930 9,586 Suffolk 10,018 10,243 9,643 9,445 8,771 7,583 7,361 6,889 6,268 Surrey 10,249 10,953 10,396 10,081 9,421 7,779 7,784 7,523 6,881 Sussex 18,074 18,388 17,373 16,991 15,677 14,033 12,789 11,367 10,396 Teesside 13,408 13,715 13,606 13,052 12,178 10,954 10,613 9,523 9,805 Thames Valley 25,776 26,614 25,405 24,373 23,421 20,795 19,787 18,463 20,831 Warwickshire 7,177 7,538 6,937 6,743 6,492 5,698 5,452 4,749 4,368 West Mercia 15,217 15,692 15,445 13,642 13,197 11,774 11,188 10,057 9,251 Wiltshire 8,064 8,214 7,874 7,720 7,224 5,964 5,510 4,874 4,606 Greater Manchester 51,577 52,798 48,309 47,532 45,645 40,985 38,521 34,479 31,731 Merseyside 31,729 32,756 29,263 28,820 28,643 25,798 24,621 22,410 23,062 Northumbria 29,109 29,801 27,646 26,964 26,005 22,999 22,113 18,459 16,641 South Yorkshire 24,977 25,511 24,282 24,058 23,041 20,858 20,381 18,191 16,153 West Midlands 56,913 59,331 55,055 53,377 50,140 44,076 41,932 38,581 37,865 West Yorkshire 41,080 42,982 40,036 38,193 36,226 33,366 30,986 28,062 26,931 London 150,384 153,617 143,404 137,416 132,637 107,888 110,390 106,612 94,328 Dyfed Powys 8,417 8,960 8,295 8,058 7,541 6,478 5,784 5,162 4,579 Gwent 11,172 11,404 11,252 10,930 10,018 8,938 8,029 7,197 5,215 North Wales 12,244 12,530 11,786 11,696 11,027 10,067 9,044 8,223 6,774 South Wales 24,624 25,566 25,226 24,402 23,098 20,917 19,328 18,104 17,062 Total 886,285 912,496 860,172 828,817 786,995 690,312 661,130 609,348 557,686