The information requested is shown in the following tables.
(a) All Thames Valley probation area staff (b) All Milton Keynes probation office staff 2005 1:8 1:11 2006 1:9 1:10 2007 1:10 1:11 2008 1:9 1:14 2009 1:8 1:12
(a) All Thames Valley probation area offender managers (b) All Milton Keynes probation office offender managers 2005 1:14 1:17 2006 1:17 1:15 2007 1:21 1:17 2008 1:23 1:19 2009 1:22 1:17
This information has been provided by Thames Valley Probation Area. The number of offenders includes some in custody who would be subject to probation supervision on release.
The total community and pre-release custodial offender caseload for England and Wales as at 31 December since 2002 was as follows:
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Supervised in community All court orders 116,125 120,734 128,217 137,377 146,532 150,179 146,725 Post-release supervision 22,000 21,106 22,739 25,603 26,096 28,721 32,220 Supervised in custody 55,732 59,791 61,328 64,682 65,378 66,381 66,864 Note: A new system for collecting probation workload data was introduced from 1 January 2002, making comparisons with earlier years unreliable (and so data prior to 2002 are not provided here).
The 2008 figures are provisional and were published on 30 April in the Ministry of Justice statistics bulletin Probation statistics quarterly brief October to December 2008, England and Wales. Copies can be found in the Libraries of the House. The final 2008 data will be published in Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2008 on 31 July.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.