To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many probation staff, excluding trainee probation officers, were in post in the Probation Service in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on 31 December 2007. (283338)

There were 249 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff on 31 December 2007 (based on the December FTE payroll report) for the ceremonial county of Hampshire (i.e. excluding the Isle of Wight). There were an additional 31 trainee probation officers (FTE) in post.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many probation staff, excluding trainee probation officers, were in post in the Probation Service in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on 31 December 1997. (283345)

Prior to 2003, workforce information pertaining to the Probation Service was collected by the Home Office RDS Unit and published in an annual Probation Statistics Report. The information available from that time does not enable us to extract data for a particular probation area or job group within that area.