Community Orders
(asked on 17th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have completed community sentences in each local justice area in each of the last five years.
It is not possible to map offenders who have completed community sentences to local justice areas. However, the number of offenders who have completed community sentences (Community Orders, Youth Rehabilitation Orders, and Supervision Default Orders) in each of the seven probation regions in place for the period the data refers to can be found in the table below. This data does not include Suspended Sentence Orders, given they are classified as a custodial sentence.
During 2020, the number of court order completions was substantially reduced as a result of operational restrictions put in place in response to the pandemic.
In June 2021 we successfully created the new unified Probation Service, with a permanent uplift of £155m extra investment - a 15% increase on 2019-20 funding. This means that the Probation Service now has the responsibility for supervising offenders of all levels of risk, together with the timely delivery of community payback and rehabilitative programmes, which were previously the responsibility of the Community Rehabilitations Companies. As part of these changes, the Probation Service is now organised under twelve regions across England and Wales.
We are committed to using our programme of reform to drive up overall performance standards. Our new performance framework for the unified Service will be tracking the key elements of probation delivery, and whether offenders are complying with them to ensure sentences are successfully completed. This will ensure a greater focus on quality and outcomes, including the timeliness of sentence delivery.
Number of offenders that completed a community sentence in each year between 2016 and 2020, by region, England and Wales (1), (2)
Region(3) | 2016(4) | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020(5) |
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North East | .. | 14,336 | 13,807 | 13,775 | 10,613 |
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North West | .. | 11,326 | 10,519 | 10,758 | 8,546 |
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Midlands | .. | 12,970 | 11,604 | 10,846 | 8,793 |
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London | .. | 9,289 | 10,302 | 10,202 | 7,952 |
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South East and Eastern | .. | 12,842 | 11,620 | 11,776 | 9,037 |
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South West | .. | 11,478 | 10,373 | 10,473 | 8,628 |
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Wales | .. | 5,190 | 4,774 | 4,867 | 3,786 |
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England and Wales | .. | 77,431 | 72,999 | 72,697 | 57,355 |
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(1) Community sentences include community orders, pre-Criminal Justice Act 2003 orders, Youth Rehabilitation Orders, and Supervision Default Orders.
(2) The figures include all terminations of community sentences in each year, including multiple terminations of the same type of supervision (e.g. two periods of community order supervision terminating in the same year would be included in the figures).
(3) The region in which the termination of an order is deemed to have taken place is determined from the Community Rehabilitation Company or National Probation Service division associated with the Order Manager allocated to the Event on the date of termination. Where a transfer between Order Managers is recorded on this day, the latest Order Manager record is to be taken.
(4) Due to an issue with the archived data, figures for 2016 cannot be provided.
(5) In this period, the number of court order completions was substantially reduced as a result of the operational restrictions that were put in place on 23 March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.