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| Number of persons cautioned( 1) , proceeded against at magistrates' courts, found guilty at all courts, sentenced, broken down by outcome, or attempted murder( 2) and conspiracy to commit murder( 3) , England and Wales, 2007( 4,5) | |||||||||
| Outcome of sentence | |||||||||
| Offence | Cautioned | Proceeded against | Found guilty | Sentenced | Fine | Community sentence | Suspended sentence | Immediate custody | Other disposals |
| (1) From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and warnings. These figures have been included in the totals. (2) Includes Attempted Murder, under Common Law. (3) Includes Conspiracy or soliciting etc; to commit murder under Common Law. (4) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence 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. (5) 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. Source: Evidence and Analysis Unit - Office for Criminal Justice Reform. | |||||||||
Legal Aid
Jeff Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much legal aid has been granted to parents seeking access rights to children in each of the last five years. [279196]
Bridget Prentice: The Legal Services Commission is unable to identify the amount of legal aid granted solely to parents for contact applications from its case management system, as these applications can also be made by wider family members, such as grandparents or older siblings. These proceedings can also include other issues as well as contact, such as residence, parental responsibility and specific issue orders, and these costs will be included in the certificate costs.
In the past five financial years the following amounts have been paid in closed certificates that involve contact issues.
| Financial year | £ million |
A small proportion of the increase in 2008-09 is due to the Legal Services Commission undertaking an exercise to close dormant certificates.
The figures do not include the costs of initial legal advice on contact provided under the controlled Family Help Scheme, as this information is not recorded.
Mr. Neil Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of legal aid spending was incurred for lawyers' attendance at (a) police stations, (b) magistrates courts and (c) Crown courts in each of the last five years. [280335]
Bridget Prentice: The question cannot be answered in the format requested since amounts spent on actual attendance cannot be separately identified. Information is available for 2004-05 to 2007-08 only.
The following table gives the proportions of total legal aid expenditure for police stations, magistrates courts and the Crown court for attendance related work and includes work done in preparation for attendance. Work which is clearly not related to attendance such as police station telephone advice has been excluded. Expenditure not related to police stations, magistrates courts and the Crown court, such as representation for prisoners at prison disciplinary hearings has also been excluded.
Overall legal aid expenditure is made up of criminal and civil legal aid. The Legal Services Commission's annual reports show the spend each year between the two schemes.
| Proportions of overall legal aid expenditure | ||||
| Percentage | ||||
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
Prisons: Mental Health Services
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the costs of the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Programme have been in each year since it began. [279066]
Maria Eagle: The Ministry of Justice and Department of Health have worked together to establish a range of pilot services for dangerous offenders with severe personality disorder in prisons, high and medium secure national health service (NHS) facilities and the community. The programme was announced in 2001 as a commitment to provide at least an extra 300 places for offenders who fell into the dangerous and severe personality disorder category.
The total capital investment for the programme has been £128 million. This expenditure resulted in three high secure units (two in hospitals and one in a prison), three medium secure units and two NHS hostels. It is estimated that across the NHS and the National Offender
Management Service in each year between 2003-04 and 2005-06 the revenue expenditure incurred was £40 million and since 2006-07, £60 million, reflecting the increase in the available places over that period. The costs include the provision of assessment and treatment, a research and evaluation programme, and for the central team responsible for the development and management of the programme.
Probation: Finance
Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how the speedy recall processes to be introduced in the London Probation Service will be funded. [280503]
Maria Eagle:
London Probation is already required to complete and submit recall breach reports within the national target of 24 hours. The intention is that existing processes will be improved to ensure compliance with the target and that this work will be undertaken within existing resources. London Probation is committed to working closely with its partner agencies, the Metropolitan police and the National Offender Management Service
Public Protection Casework Section, to improve the efficiency of the recall process from the initiating of recall by London Probation through to the arrest by the police. This work is being monitored by the London Criminal Justice Board and the London Director of Offender Management.
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the budget was for each probation area in each year since 1997. [280784]
Maria Eagle: The resource budget allocations to individual probation areas from 2001-02 are given in the table. Prior to 2001-02 probation services were delivered through local probation committees which were partly funded by local authorities and were organised on a slightly different basis.
The budget figures shown for 2009-10 may be subject to further change.
Since 2001-02 there have been changes to the budget allocation methodology, plus machinery of government changes and accounting methodology changes that make it difficult to compare figures over a long period.
| Probation areas end-year budgets—at 16 June2009 | |||||||||
| £000 | |||||||||
| Revenue | |||||||||
| Areas | 2009-10 | 2008-09 | 2007-08 | 2006-07 | 2005-06 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2002-03 | 2001-02 |
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