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		Probation
		AO/AA and Equiv.	OSG and Officer Grades	Total	Former NOMS HQ	OMMS HQ Total
Capacity Programme	Estates Planning and Development	—	—	—	30	31
	Other Groups/Units	—	—	—	87	89
Capacity Programme total		—	—	—	117	120
Commissioning and Operational Policy	Offender Assessment and Management Group	—	—	—	21	23
	Other Groups/Units	—	—	—	3	3
Commissioning and Operational Policy total		—	—	—	24	26
Director General	Briefing and Casework Unit	—	—	—	1	38
	Internal Communications	—	—	—	—	11
	Race Equality Action Group	—	—	—	2	29
	Other Groups/Units	—	—	—	7	28
Director General Total		—	—	—	10	106
Finance and Performance	Audit and Corporate Assurance	——	—	—	24	76
	Commercial and Competitions Unit	—	—	—	46	47
	Financial Control and Accountancy	—	—	—	12	49
	Information and Communication Technology	—	—	—	44	102
	Phoenix Shared Service Centre	—	—	—	1	1035
	Procurement	—	—	—	5	42
	Programmes and Project Management Group	—	—	—		2
	Strategy and Effectiveness Group	—	—	—	1	40
	Other Groups/Units	—	—	—	57	322
Finance and Performance Total		—	—	—	190	1715
High Security Directorate Total		—	—	—	2	148
HR Total		1	—	18	14	283
Chief Operating Officer	Area Offices, ROMs, DOMs and Area Teams	11	5	83	1	1035
	Office of National Commissioning	—	—	—	70	72
	Performance Delivery	—	—	—		2
	Public Protection Unit	—	—	—	177	181
	Other Groups/Units	—	—	12	132	267
Chief Operating Officer Total		11	5	95	380	1557
Commissioning and Operational Policy	Commissioning, Women and Young Peoples Group	—	—	—	7	93
	Interventions Group and Substance Misuse	—	—	—	31	134
	Offender Employment Skills & Services Group	—	—	—	6	91
	Operational Policy Unit	—	—	—	3	10
	Safer Custody and Offender Policy Group	—	—	—	3	25
	Other Groups/Units	—	—	—	5	42
Commissioning and Operational Policy Total					55	395
Grand total		12	5	113	792	4350
Note: Staff have been allocated as either Prison Service, Probation Service or former NOMS HQ based on their unit immediately prior to the creation of the new NOMS HQ. No account is taken of experience before that, either in the Prison Service or Probation Service.

Offences Against Children: Convictions

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people have been convicted of (a) child abuse and (b) murdering a child in each of the last five years. [248763]

Maria Eagle: The number of persons aged 18 and over convicted at all courts for offences relating to child abuse from 2003 to 2007 in England and Wales can be viewed in the following table. As there is no specific offence of “child abuse”, statistics are only provided where the victim can be identified as a child from the description of the offence. Child abuse can be covered by a number of offences, including the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 S.5 which came into force on 21 March 2005.

These data are on the principal offence basis. The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences, the offence selected is the one for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.

Court proceedings data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.

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N umber of defendants aged 18 and over convicted at all courts for offences relating to child abuse and child murder in England and Wales, 2003 to 2007( 1, 2, 3, 4)
		Found guilty
Statute	Offence description	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 S.5	Causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable person	0	0	0	2	6
Children and Young Persons Act 1933 Sec 1.	Cruelty or neglect of children	488	537	476	487	486
Offences against the Person Act 1861 Sec 27	Abandoning children under 2 years	1	0	0	2	1
Sexual Offences Act 2003 S.1	Rape of a female aged under 16	239	261	219	207	227
Sexual Offences Act 2003 S.1	Rape of a male aged under 16	23	21	22	13	19
Sexual Offences Act 2003 S.5	Rape of a female child under 13 by a male	0	4	43	59	70
Sexual Offences Act 2003 S.5	Rape of a male child under 13 by a male	0	0	3	17	14
Sexual Offences Act 2003 S.7	Sexual assault of a female child under 13	0	25	139	192	216
Sexual Offences Act 2003 S.8(1)(2)(1)(3), S.10(1a,b,ci)(3), S.9(1a,b,cii)(2), S.9(la,b,cii)(3), S 10(1,a,b,c(ii))(2), S.10(1,a,b,c(ii))(3)	Sexual activity involving a child	0	20	113	175	170
Sexual Offences Act 2003 S16(1ei,2-5), S16(1eii,2-5), S17(1ei,2-5), S18(1fi,2-5), S19(1ei,2-5), S17(1eii,2-5)	Abuse of a position of trust: Sexual activity with children	0	3	14	16	15
Common Law. Offences against the Person Act 186i Sec 1, 9, 10.	Murder of infants under 1 year of age	4	4	4	7	6
Infanticide Act 1938 S1(1).	Infanticide	0	0	2	1	1
Total		755	875	1,035	1,178	1,231
(1 )These data are on the principal offence basis. (2 )Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts, and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3 )Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 S.5 came into force on 21 March 2005. (4 )The Sexual Offences Act 2003 came into force on 1 May 2004. Source: OCJR—E & A: Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Evidence and Analysis Unit

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