To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average caseload for a probation officer working in Wales was on 31 December (a) 1997, (b) 2001 and (c) 2007. (283086)

The average case load for a probation officer working in Wales on 31 December 2007 was 28 cases.

Information on the average case load for 2001 and 1997 is not available for an all Wales perspective. Some of this information is no longer held, and would have been disposed of in accordance with the six-year retention limit specified by the Data Protection Act.

As follows is a table of the information that is available.