Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many organisations remain in the bidding process for the Northumbria Community Rehabilitation Company.

In mid December 2013, the bidders who passed the first stage of the competition to bid for the regional rehabilitation contracts were announced. The list includes a mix of private and voluntary sector partnerships with more than 50 organisations represented A list of the bidders who have been successful at this stage can be found at:

https://www.justice.gov.uk/transforming-rehabilitation/competition

The process to award Community Rehabilitation Company contracts is ongoing and the details of which bidders are interested in bidding for each Contract Package Area (CPA) is commercially sensitive information, which it would not be right to make public at this stage as this would affect the bidding process for the overall competition. The contract winners for each Community Rehabilitation Company will be announced by the end of 2014