Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of hours of unpaid work completed at home in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London as part of community sentences in each year since 2010.

Unpaid Work completed from home was introduced as a temporary delivery method in response to Covid-19. As such, there are no data prior to the year 2020-21. It is not possible to provide the data for individual London boroughs or constituencies due to how data is recorded, data is available for the London Probation region, provided below.

Independent working projects enabled eligible offenders to complete some of their hours from home. All offenders were assessed by Probation staff before being offered any independent working projects.

All products created by offenders via independent working projects were for the benefit of prisons or local charities. Projects have included a range of robust and practical tasks such as, producing hats and scarves for Ukrainian refugees and making face masks and PPE for Care Homes and charities during the pandemic. Safeguards were in place to ensure that offenders complete the project to a high standard within a set time period.