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Prisons: National Offender Management Service

Volume 684: debated on Monday 17 July 2006

Her Majesty's Prison Service and the National Probation Service have today published their annual reports, reporting their performances for 2005-06. The Office for Contracted Prisons has today published its statement of performance. Copies of all the annual reports have been placed in the Library. The Prison Service report and the Office for Contracted Prisons statement of performance include the financial accounts for 2005-06. The financial accounts for the National Probation Service will be published later in the year.

Performance against all the national offender management targets for 2005-06 is shown in the table below.

Performance Against the National Offender Management Targets for 2005-06

Annual Target

Outturn

Public Protection Targets

Category A escapes

0

0

Total escapes from prisons and prison escorts

Less than 0.05 per cent

0.014 per cent

Escapes from Contracted Escorts (NOMS)

1:20,000

1:59,082

Risk of harm assessments, full analyses and Offender Assessment Systems (OASys) sentence plans, including risk management plans, on high/very high risk of harm offenders completed within five working days of commencement of order or release into the community

90 per cent

81 per cent (Aug 05 -Mar 06)

Risk of harm screenings/full analyses (as appropriate) and OASys sentence plans completed on prolific and other priority offenders (PPOs) within five working days of the commencement of the order or release into the community

90 per cent

82 per cent (Aug 05 -Mar 06)

Supporting the Courts

Pre-sentence reports to the magistrates’ courts within the deadline specified by the court

90 per cent

97 per cent (July 05 -Mar 06

Timely arrival at court (NOMS)

85 per cent

82.31 per cent

Firm and Fair Punishment

Proportion of orders and licences in which the offender complies

85 per cent

81 per cent

Breach proceedings initiated within 10 days

90 per cent

91 per cent

Self-inflicted deaths

Less than 112.8 per 100,000

96.8 per cent

Serious assault

Less than 1.53 per cent

1.84 per cent

Overcrowding (public prisons)

Less than 24 per cent

23.7 per cent

Overcrowding (contracted prisons)

Less than 34.5 per cent

31.3 per cent

Helping to Cut Crime

Education Awards (Probation Service): Basic Skills starts

40,000

44,972

Education Awards (Probation Service): Basic Skills Awards achieved*

10,000

14,930

Education Awards (Prison): Basic Skills Awards achieved*

56,080

63,925

Education Awards (Prison): Work Skills Awards achieved*

120,000

186,226

Accommodation on release

64,765

77,388

Employment, training and education (ETE) place on release

38,000

42,879

Drug treatment and testing orders/drug rehabilitation requirements completed (Probation)

4,000

3,977

Drug treatment programmes completed (prisons)

5,850

8,011

Mandatory drug tests

Less than 11.8 per cent

10.3 per cent

Offending behaviour programmes completion (Probation Service)

15,000

7,127

Offending behaviour programmes (Prisons)

7,000

7,942

Of which sex offender treatment programmes

1,240

1,152

Intensive control and change programmes completed

350

270

Contributing to Communities and Society

Enhanced community punishment/unpaid work completions

50,000

51,026

Victim contact

85 per cent

93 per cent

Organising and Supporting Delivery

Staff sickness (public prisons only)

Fewer than 11.5 days/person

12.17

Staff sickness (Probation Service)

Fewer than nine days/person

12.3

Ethnic-minority staff (public prisons only)

At least 6 per cent

5.73 per cent

Regionally set employment targets for ethnic-minority staff

8.4 per cent

1.9 per cent

Clear proposals in court reports for minority-ethnic offenders

95 per cent

97 per cent

* The Learning and Skills Council has contributed to this target by delivering in three development regions.