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Probation

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to make the employees of probation boards in England and Wales civil servants. [329]

Fiona Mactaggart: Work on the future organisational design of the National Offender Management Service has still to be concluded.

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been employed in the Probation Service in (a) Essex and (b) Southend in each year since 2000. [2136]

Fiona Mactaggart: The requested information is not available for the full period required. Data collected prior to 1 April 2003 is unreliable, and is not directly comparable with the more accurate figures collected since that time. The following figures show full-time equivalent (FTE) figures for each Quarter from 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2005.

Staffing information is collected by probation area, and is not collected centrally in sufficient detail to allow figures for Southend to be presented separately. The staffing figures are provided for the Essex probation area only.
 
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Essex probation area	FTE in post
30 June 2003	385.4
30 September 2003	383.7
31 December 2003	393.1
31 March 2004	399.1
30 June 2004	414.7
30 September 2004	406.5
31 December 2004	432.6

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost of the Probation Service in (a) Southend and (b) Essex was in each year since 2000. [2137]

Fiona Mactaggart: The table shows the net expenditure for the Essex probation area in each year since 2000.

Data on Probation Service costs are collected by probation area. The figures collected centrally are not in sufficient detail to allow costs for Southend to be presented separately.
Essex probation area

Financial year	Net expenditure (£000)
2000–01	10,786.20
2001–02	13,554.20
2002–03	14,660.80
2003–04	15,308.30

Race Equality Council (Gloucestershire)

Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the (a) work of and (b) funding in 2005–06 for the Race Equality Council for Gloucestershire. [689]

Fiona Mactaggart [holding answer 24 May 2005]: Gloucestershire Race Equality Council (REC) was unsuccessful in its application for funding for this year from the Commission for Racial Equality's Getting Results grant programme. However the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) is planning to build the capacity of the voluntary and community sector, including RECs, to deliver local race equality services in the areas of most need. The CRE has set aside £250,000 for this work. I welcome this development and hope it will benefit Gloucester.

Secure Training Centres

Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children were received into each secure training centre (a) on remand and (b) under sentence in each year since they opened, broken down by age. [899]

Fiona Mactaggart: The number of young people received into each secure training centre between 1 January 2000 to 30 April 2005 is shown in the tables. Information on admissions prior to 1 April 2000 is not available centrally.
 
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Admissions to secure training centres
2000

	Sentence type
STC	Remand	Sentenced	Grand total
Hassockfield STC
Age
12	—	5	5
13	1	21	22
14	—	77	77
15	2	15	17
16	—	1	1
Hassockfield STC Total	3	119	122
Medway
Age
12	—	2	2
13	1	28	29
14	—	62	62
15	1	28	29
16	—	11	11
17	—	1	1
Medway total	2	132	134
Rainsbrook
Age
12	—	5	5
13	—	19	19
14	—	83	83
15	2	27	29
16	—	5	5
Rainsbrook total	2	139	141
Grand Total	7	390	397

2001

	Sentence type
STC	Remand	Sentenced	Grand total
Hassockfield STC
Age
12	—	4	4
13	—	35	35
14	—	124	124
15	—	20	20
16	1	5	6
Hassockfield STC Total	1	188	189
Medway
Age
12	—	5	5
13	—	19	19
14	—	78	78
15	1	36	37
16	1	10	11
Medway total	2	148	150
Rainsbrook
Age
12	—	3	3
13	—	21	21
14	—	77	77
15	—	31	31
16	—	6	6
17	—	1	1
Rainsbrook total	—	139	139
Grand Total	3	475	478

 
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2002

	Sentence type
STC	Remand	Sentenced	Grand total
Hassockfield STC
Age
11	—	1	1
12	1	1	2
13	6	32	38
14	30	95	125
15	8	22	30
16	6	4	10
Hassockfield STC Total	51	155	206
Medway
Age
12	—	4	4
13	2	19	21
14	5	59	64
15	11	39	50
16	9	15	24
Medway total	27	136	163
Rainsbrook
Age
12	—	4	4
13	10	31	41
14	19	70	89
15	18	28	46
16	17	13	30
17	—	1	1
Rainsbrook total	64	147	211
Grand Total	142	438	580

2003

	Sentence type
STC	Remand	Sentenced	Grand total
Hassockfield STC
Age
12	—	1	1
13	5	17	22
14	21	48	69
15	14	33	47
16	14	22	36
17	—	2	2
Hassockfield STC Total	54	123	177
Medway
Age
12	2	5	7
13	10	22	32
14	31	89	120
15	23	78	101
16	13	46	59
17	1	2	3
Medway total	80	242	322
Rainsbrook
Age
12	3	1	4
13	18	16	34
14	39	62	101
15	47	39	86
16	29	35	64
Rainsbrook total	136	153	289
Grand Total	270	518	788

 
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2004

	Sentence type
STC	Remand	Sentenced	Grand total
Hassockfield STC
Age
12	1	1	2
13	10	13	23
14	31	52	83
15	22	44	66
16	18	20	38
17	—	2	2
Hassockfield STC Total	82	132	214
Medway
Age
12	1	4	5
13	8	19	27
14	22	88	110
15	19	50	69
16	22	55	77
Medway total	72	216	288
Oakhill STC
Age
12	1	3	4
13	2	5	7
14	17	18	35
15	13	14	27
16	4	11	15
17	—	1	1
Oakhill STC total	37	52	89
Rainsbrook
Age
12	—	1	1
13	15	13	28
14	50	64	114
15	28	53	81
16	29	42	71
17	1	—	1
Rainsbrook total	123	173	296
Grand Total	314	573	887

2005

	Sentence type
STC	Remand	Sentenced	Grand total
Hassockfield STC
Age
12	1	—	1
13	4	3	7
14	12	14	26
15	7	13	20
16	12	12	24
Hassockfield STC Total	36	42	78
Medway
Age
13	1	4	5
14	13	22	35
15	6	21	27
16	8	21	29
17	—	2	2
Medway total	28	70	98
Oakhill STC
Age
12	1	—	1
13	2	3	5
14	14	21	35
15	9	23	32
16	7	13	20
Oakhill STC total	33	60	93
Rainsbrook
Age
13	4	4	8
14	16	21	37
15	6	18	24
16	12	14	26
17	—	1	1
Rainsbrook total	38	58	96
Grand Total	135	230	365

 
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