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date	01/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
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legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2022 to Question 25871 on Community Orders, how many hours of Community Payback is yet to be delivered in each (a) region of (i) England and (ii) Wales and (b) probation service area in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	28888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p><strong></strong>The below table provides a breakdown of the number of hours on the Community Payback caseload by Probation region as of 27/06/22.</p><p>It outlines the number of hours handed down by the courts (including recently sentenced hours) which still need to be worked.</p><p>This Government is committed to ensuring that offenders work all of their sentenced hours, subject to judicial decision.</p><p>We are boosting the number of hours offenders spend doing tough Community Payback, such as cleaning up public places, by nearly two thirds – from five million to eight million hours a year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Probation Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Caseload of Community Payback Hours </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>East Midlands Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 374,615.8 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derby City</p></td><td><p>21,928.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>34,234.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland</p></td><td><p>75,605.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire East and West</p></td><td><p>15,007.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham City</p></td><td><p>35,591.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>34,131.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other East Midlands Region</p></td><td><p>158,117.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>East of England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 513,991.2 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>36,741.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire and Peterborough</p></td><td><p>43,474.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex North</p></td><td><p>110,644.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex South</p></td><td><p>91,922.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>36,568.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>63,515.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>66,600.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>63,303.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other East of England</p></td><td><p>1,221.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Greater Manchester</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 345,023.9 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton</p></td><td><p>27,752.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury and Rochdale</p></td><td><p>35,672.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester North</p></td><td><p>40,585.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester South</p></td><td><p>31,889.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham</p></td><td><p>25,090.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salford</p></td><td><p>22,014.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockport and Trafford</p></td><td><p>31,438.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tameside</p></td><td><p>22,011.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wigan</p></td><td><p>24,482.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>84,086.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Kent Surrey Sussex Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 360,166.8 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brighton and East Sussex</p></td><td><p>58,613.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kent</p></td><td><p>67,102.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>60,347.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Kent</p></td><td><p>119,825.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Sussex</p></td><td><p>52,913.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Kent Surrey Sussex Region</p></td><td><p>1,365.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>London</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 849,204.5 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking and Dagenham and Havering</p></td><td><p>51,914.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent</p></td><td><p>34,225.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden, Islington</p></td><td><p>30,109.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croydon</p></td><td><p>31,883.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ealing and Hillingdon</p></td><td><p>31,754.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enfield and Haringey</p></td><td><p>45,730.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich and Bexley</p></td><td><p>39,660.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hackney and City</p></td><td><p>29,639.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster</p></td><td><p>32,480.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrow and Barnet</p></td><td><p>31,241.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston, Richmond and Hounslow</p></td><td><p>32,074.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p>23,328.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham and Bromley</p></td><td><p>46,789.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newham</p></td><td><p>44,479.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redbridge and Waltham Forest</p></td><td><p>51,924.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southwark</p></td><td><p>23,016.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tower Hamlets</p></td><td><p>37,316.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wandsworth, Merton and Sutton</p></td><td><p>36,975.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other London</p></td><td><p>194,660.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North East Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 200,402.0 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>County Durham and Darlington</p></td><td><p>19,739.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gateshead and South Tyneside</p></td><td><p>25,418.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newcastle Upon Tyne</p></td><td><p>15,074.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Tyneside and Northumberland</p></td><td><p>29,707.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redcar, Cleveland and Middlesbrough</p></td><td><p>19,154.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockton and Hartlepool</p></td><td><p>16,397.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland</p></td><td><p>15,017.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other North East Region</p></td><td><p>59,895.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North West Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 510,398.6 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackburn and Darwen</p></td><td><p>9,884.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Lancashire</p></td><td><p>29,460.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire East</p></td><td><p>28,540.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire West</p></td><td><p>28,792.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>31,000.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lancashire</p></td><td><p>23,942.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halton and Warrington</p></td><td><p>29,306.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Knowsley and St Helens</p></td><td><p>26,413.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool North</p></td><td><p>34,095.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool South</p></td><td><p>34,535.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Lancashire</p></td><td><p>39,715.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sefton</p></td><td><p>22,513.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wirral</p></td><td><p>37,475.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other North West Region</p></td><td><p>134,722.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>South Central</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 351,656.0 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buckinghamshire and M Keynes</p></td><td><p>48,551.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Berkshire</p></td><td><p>33,317.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire North and East</p></td><td><p>52,774.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxfordshire</p></td><td><p>23,929.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portsmouth and IoW</p></td><td><p>26,117.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southampton, Eastleigh and New Forest</p></td><td><p>34,784.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Berkshire</p></td><td><p>37,259.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other South Central</p></td><td><p>94,921.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>South West</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 404,434.6 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bath and North Somerset</p></td><td><p>19,903.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol and South Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>103,488.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cornwall and Isles of Scilly</p></td><td><p>18,229.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon and Torbay</p></td><td><p>32,491.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>73,086.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>34,267.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth</p></td><td><p>27,462.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Somerset</p></td><td><p>38,190.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon and Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>56,374.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other South West</p></td><td><p>940.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 304,529.4 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardiff and Vale</p></td><td><p>66,898.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cwm Taf Morgannwg</p></td><td><p>45,412.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dyfed Powys</p></td><td><p>38,891.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>36,714.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>85,236.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swansea, Neath Port-Talbot</p></td><td><p>28,893.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Wales</p></td><td><p>2,483.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>West Midlands Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 403,012.7 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham Central and South</p></td><td><p>54,245.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham North, East and Solihull</p></td><td><p>45,832.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry</p></td><td><p>46,190.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dudley and Sandwell</p></td><td><p>19,188.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford</p></td><td><p>15,311.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire and Stoke</p></td><td><p>52,068.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall and Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>33,985.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>29,432.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worcestershire</p></td><td><p>16,994.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other West Midlands Region</p></td><td><p>89,763.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Yorkshire and The Humber</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 688,056.9 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley and Rotherham</p></td><td><p>48,170.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bradford and Calderdale</p></td><td><p>168,798.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doncaster</p></td><td><p>34,181.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull and East Riding</p></td><td><p>60,515.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirklees</p></td><td><p>65,751.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>128,704.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North and North East Lincs</p></td><td><p>27,857.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>44,007.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield</p></td><td><p>44,698.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wakefield</p></td><td><p>49,025.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>15,075.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>1,271.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 5,305,492.4 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data as at 27/06/2022. It is worth noting that some recording of hours sentenced or worked takes place retrospectively and therefore won't be included in this data.</p><p>Data is sourced from nDelius and while this data has been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.</p><p>Cases held in an 'Other' Delivery Unit include cases held by a Region-wide Community Payback function, cases held in the region's enforcement function, or cases pending allocation to a Probation Delivery Unit.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/07/2022 17:28:40 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

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registered interest
date	28/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what Community Payback projects have been completed in Easington constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	26738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>Community Payback is a visible punishment which sees offenders undertake work that directly benefits the communities they have harmed.</p><p>Rigorous and constructive projects are delivered across England and Wales on a daily basis. Work carried out by offenders may include removing graffiti from public buildings, clearing wasteland, or decorating a community centre.</p><p>Local engagement is an integral part of Community Payback, and anyone can nominate a project in their local area via the Gov.uk website.</p><p>Prior to unification of the Probation Service in June 2021, Community Payback was delivered by Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and consequently we do not have access to an exhaustive list of projects delivered in each of the last five years.</p><p>However, the Durham Tees Valley CRC did deliver regular projects in partnership with Durham County Council in the Peterlee area, with Community Payback teams working four days a week to improve local open spaces.</p><p>Post-unification, the North East Probation region currently has regular projects running at the Castle Eden Walkway, Parkside Walkway, Woodhouse Park and South Hetton allotments.</p><p>Work undertaken at the projects listed above in Easington have included grounds maintenance, such as strimming, grass cutting, clearing overgrown vegetation to open up pathways and raising the canopy to remove overhanging branches, path edging and litter picking.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/07/2022 11:05:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1483634

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many community payback projects have been nominated by members of the public in every region of England and Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	25868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>Community Payback sees offenders make reparation for their crimes in a constructive and demanding way. Community Payback should be a visible punishment, with offenders undertaking work that benefits the communities they have harmed.</p><p> </p><p>Local engagement is an integral part of Community Payback, and we encourage members of the public to nominate projects via the Gov.uk website. The public can provide a unique insight into the needs of their local area and therefore the merit of public nominations is that projects are responsive to those priorities. The nominations we receive are then assessed by local Community Payback teams for suitability to ensure that the proposal benefits the local community, does not directly replace paid employment, and does not contravene state aid or competitive advantage regulations.</p><p> </p><p>Suitable projects may include removing graffiti from a public building, clearing wasteland, or decorating a community centre.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to unification of the Probation Service in June 2021, Community Payback was delivered by Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) who had their own processes for capturing public nominations. CRC contracts did not require them to report on these processes. However, under CRCs the public could also nominate projects via the Gov.uk website and we do retain this data, dating back to September 2019. There is no data prior to 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 presents nominations received via the Gov.uk website for each CRC between September 2019 and June 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 1</p></td><td><p>03/09/2019-&gt; 30/06/21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria and Lancashire</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham Tees valley</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber Lincoln and North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire and West Midlands &amp; Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Rutland</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire West Mercia</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol, Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon Dorset and Cornwall</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire and Isle of Wight</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire, Northampton, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk and Suffolk</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following unification in June 2021, the Probation Service assumed responsibility for all public nominations. Table 2 presents nominations received by each Probation region via Gov.uk from unification until 21 June 2022.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Table 2</p></td><td><p>01/07/21 - 21/06/22</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Kent, Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>London</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>North East</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>North West</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>South West</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Yorkshire &amp; Humberside</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide data on how many projects nominated by members of the public have been completed in each of the last five years as CRCs were not required to collect this data. However, we are working to improve our data collection post-unification as part of wider reforms to Community Payback.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 25869 25870 question first answered 30/06/2022 16:51:48 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

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registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the types of Community Payback projects nominated by members of the public in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	25869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>Community Payback sees offenders make reparation for their crimes in a constructive and demanding way. Community Payback should be a visible punishment, with offenders undertaking work that benefits the communities they have harmed.</p><p> </p><p>Local engagement is an integral part of Community Payback, and we encourage members of the public to nominate projects via the Gov.uk website. The public can provide a unique insight into the needs of their local area and therefore the merit of public nominations is that projects are responsive to those priorities. The nominations we receive are then assessed by local Community Payback teams for suitability to ensure that the proposal benefits the local community, does not directly replace paid employment, and does not contravene state aid or competitive advantage regulations.</p><p> </p><p>Suitable projects may include removing graffiti from a public building, clearing wasteland, or decorating a community centre.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to unification of the Probation Service in June 2021, Community Payback was delivered by Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) who had their own processes for capturing public nominations. CRC contracts did not require them to report on these processes. However, under CRCs the public could also nominate projects via the Gov.uk website and we do retain this data, dating back to September 2019. There is no data prior to 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 presents nominations received via the Gov.uk website for each CRC between September 2019 and June 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 1</p></td><td><p>03/09/2019-&gt; 30/06/21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria and Lancashire</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham Tees valley</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber Lincoln and North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire and West Midlands &amp; Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Rutland</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire West Mercia</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol, Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon Dorset and Cornwall</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire and Isle of Wight</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire, Northampton, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk and Suffolk</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following unification in June 2021, the Probation Service assumed responsibility for all public nominations. Table 2 presents nominations received by each Probation region via Gov.uk from unification until 21 June 2022.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Table 2</p></td><td><p>01/07/21 - 21/06/22</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Kent, Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>London</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>North East</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>North West</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>South West</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Yorkshire &amp; Humberside</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide data on how many projects nominated by members of the public have been completed in each of the last five years as CRCs were not required to collect this data. However, we are working to improve our data collection post-unification as part of wider reforms to Community Payback.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 25868 25870 question first answered 30/06/2022 16:51:48 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1483636

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of community payback projects nominated by members of the public have been completed in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	25870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>Community Payback sees offenders make reparation for their crimes in a constructive and demanding way. Community Payback should be a visible punishment, with offenders undertaking work that benefits the communities they have harmed.</p><p> </p><p>Local engagement is an integral part of Community Payback, and we encourage members of the public to nominate projects via the Gov.uk website. The public can provide a unique insight into the needs of their local area and therefore the merit of public nominations is that projects are responsive to those priorities. The nominations we receive are then assessed by local Community Payback teams for suitability to ensure that the proposal benefits the local community, does not directly replace paid employment, and does not contravene state aid or competitive advantage regulations.</p><p> </p><p>Suitable projects may include removing graffiti from a public building, clearing wasteland, or decorating a community centre.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to unification of the Probation Service in June 2021, Community Payback was delivered by Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) who had their own processes for capturing public nominations. CRC contracts did not require them to report on these processes. However, under CRCs the public could also nominate projects via the Gov.uk website and we do retain this data, dating back to September 2019. There is no data prior to 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 presents nominations received via the Gov.uk website for each CRC between September 2019 and June 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 1</p></td><td><p>03/09/2019-&gt; 30/06/21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria and Lancashire</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham Tees valley</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber Lincoln and North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire and West Midlands &amp; Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Rutland</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire West Mercia</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol, Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon Dorset and Cornwall</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire and Isle of Wight</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire, Northampton, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk and Suffolk</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following unification in June 2021, the Probation Service assumed responsibility for all public nominations. Table 2 presents nominations received by each Probation region via Gov.uk from unification until 21 June 2022.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Table 2</p></td><td><p>01/07/21 - 21/06/22</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Kent, Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>London</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>North East</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>North West</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>South West</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Yorkshire &amp; Humberside</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide data on how many projects nominated by members of the public have been completed in each of the last five years as CRCs were not required to collect this data. However, we are working to improve our data collection post-unification as part of wider reforms to Community Payback.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 25868 25869 question first answered 30/06/2022 16:51:49 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1483637

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of community payback is yet to be delivered in each (a) region of (i) England and (ii) Wales and (b) probation service area due to a lack of supervisors in the Probation Service.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	25871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The data requested is not held by the Ministry of Justice, as recording processes do not identify a specific reason for hours being outstanding.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 30/06/2022 16:52:27 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1472870

registered interest
date	23/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Parole
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reform the parole system.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	23809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>The Root and Branch Review of the Parole System was published on 30 March 2022 and set out a number of reforms to the parole system. Key reforms include: refining the statutory release test and adding criteria which Parole Board panels must consider; creating a ‘top-tier’ of the most serious offenders, who will be subject to increased ministerial oversight, including the ability of the Secretary of State to refuse their release; and increasing the number of panel members with law enforcement experience, mandating that these members sit on ‘top-tier’ cases. We will legislate for these proposals as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p>We have already implemented a tougher test and increased ministerial oversight when considering the most serious offenders for a move to open prison conditions. In addition, a Statutory Instrument has recently been laid in Parliament, which will amend the Parole Board Rules to allow for some parole hearings to be heard in public. It will also provide for the Secretary of State to present the Parole Board with a single view on the suitability of a prisoner for release, which will allow for ministers to put in their view to the Board in the most serious cases. All of these measures aim to enhance public protection and improve confidence in the parole system.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2022 09:16:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1471384

registered interest
date	17/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of community sentences at reducing reoffending rates.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	20234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>This Government is committed to tackling the causes of reoffending to keep our communities safe by addressing the complex issues that lead to offending, while also strengthening the supervision of offenders in the community. Since 2009/10, the proven reoffending rate for adults serving a sentence in the community (i.e. a community order or suspended sentence order) has fallen by 7.2 percentage points (from 36.2% in 2009/10 to 29.0% in 2019/20). Over the same time period, the overall reoffending rate has fallen from 31% to 26%.</p><p>Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for our independent courts. Community sentences can and should be tailored to address the individual needs, as well as to punish offenders and provide reparation to the community. Evidence suggests that community sentences, in certain circumstances, are more effective in reducing reoffending than short custodial sentences.</p><p>In September 2020 we published the Sentencing White Paper which set out our plans for more robust and effective community sentencing. We have delivered many of these reforms in the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts (PCSC) Act 2022. This includes piloting Problem-Solving Courts (PSCs) which will trial innovative incentives and sanctions to improve compliance with court orders, reduce reoffending, and support rehabilitation. The PCSC Act also enables closer supervision of certain offenders, and the option for more robust and flexible use of electronically monitored curfews. The rollout of the Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirement last year provides an option to directly tackle alcohol related offending, imposing an alcohol ban for up to 120 days; on 97% of the days monitored the ban was complied with.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/06/2022 14:46:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1471428

registered interest
date	17/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve outcomes for prisoners from ethnic minority backgrounds.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	20285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>We want people to have confidence in a justice system that is fair and open, where no person suffers discrimination of any kind. The over-representation of ethnic minorities in prisons, and in the justice system more widely, is a real concern and we continue to prioritise understanding and tackling any disparities they face.</p><p>Our commitment to tackling race and ethnic disparity is clear, as set out in the government’s Inclusive Britain strategy (published in response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities). It laid out a clear and broad set of steps we are taking in relation to improving outcomes in criminal justice, and built on the extensive work undertaken in response to the 2017 Lammy Review, a detailed overview of which can be found in the <em>Tackling Racial Disparity</em> updates published in 2018 and 2020.</p><p>Our work to tackle disparities focuses on not just the initial actions committed to in response to the Lammy Review, such as significant efforts to ensure a more representative HMPPS workforce, but also builds on these steps, going further where we can, By way of example, we launched a Stewardship Fund of over £1.5m to better support grassroot, ethnic minority-led and specialist voluntary or community sector organisations. Through the provision of informed services to ethnic minority offenders, they help turn their lives around, reduce reoffending, and improve outcomes for them and wider society.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/06/2022 14:37:01 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1471439

registered interest
date	17/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Temporary Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will take steps to ensure that new temporary accommodation to support prison leavers at risk of homelessness will be situated in places that are not likely to increase the risk of further reoffending.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	20295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>This Government is determined to continue driving down reoffending rates, to make our streets safer and reduce the £18bn annual cost of reoffending. The overall reoffending rate has already fallen from 31% in 2009/10 to 26% in 2019/20.</p><p>The provision of temporary accommodation for prison leavers is a key part of our work to further reduce reoffending - we know that offenders are around 50 per cent more likely to commit crimes again if released without somewhere to stay. The provision of more temporary accommodation for prison leavers forms part of our plans to spend £200m a year by 2024-25 to reduce reoffending.</p><p>As part of this, HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) has launched a service providing up to 12 weeks’ basic accommodation and support for those leaving prison at risk of homelessness. Originally launched in 5 probation regions, the provision is being fully rolled out across England and Wales this year, supporting the thousands of prison leavers who leave prison each year who would otherwise lack stable accommodation. We launched the competition for new contracts on 18 May 2022.</p><p>In terms of the locations of new temporary accommodation, the provider of the accommodation must obtain HMPPS’ approval for new accommodation before it can be used. Information received by the Authority from the police or local authority helps to inform the decision, and a Community Probation Practitioner will risk assess whether the accommodation is suitable for the offender. In this way, it is ensured that new temporary accommodation is in appropriate locations.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/06/2022 14:40:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves