Probation: Greater Manchester
(asked on 3rd December 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on probation services in (a) Greater Manchester (b) Oldham for each year from 2015 to date.
The data below shows the annual spend for Probation services in the Greater Manchester Probation Region and Oldham since 2021.
| 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
| £m | £m | £m | £m |
Greater Manchester Probation Service | 44.5 | 58.8 | 66.7 | 72.1 |
| 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
| £m | £m | £m | £m |
Probation Delivery Unit (PDU) Oldham | 1.8 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.7 |
To note:
Data prior to July 2021 is unable to be reported on, due to the structure of probation regions following Transforming Rehabilitation in 2014 where a National Probation Service (NPS) for high-risk work, and 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) for low/medium risk were created.
Under the National Probation Service, Greater Manchester was part of a wider area called North West Division.
The unification of CRCs and the National Probation Service (NPS) in England and Wales took place on 26 June 2021, creating The Probation Service and marked a significant restructuring of the probation system.