National Offender Management Service: Cost Effectiveness

Mr. Austin Mitchell
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what (a) cost reductions and (b) efficiency gains have been achieved by the National Offender Management Service since its inception.

Mr. Hanson
The National Offender Management Service was established in 2004. The cashable and non cashable efficiency savings achieved since April 2004 under the NOMS Value for Money Programme (comprising the Prison Service, Probation Service, Youth Justice Board and NOMS HQ) are as follows:

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|       |Cashable savings (cumulative)|Non cashable savings (cumulative)|
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|2004-05|66.37                        |72.069                           |
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|2005-06|157.692                      |133.183                          |
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|2006-07|182.912                      |205.656                          |
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|2007-08|237.976                      |276.692                          |
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The savings for 2007-08 are provisional.