To ask the Secretary of State for Justice
(1) what the average number of meetings was between probation staff and offenders on licence who were originally sentenced for (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) violence against a person, (d) burglary, (e) sexual offences against a minor, (f) theft and (g) criminal damage to property during the first (i) zero to six, (ii) seven to 12, (iii) 13 to 18, (iv) 19 to 24 and (v) 25 to 36 months of their probation in each probation trust area in each of the last five years;
(2) what the average number of days was between release from prison and first engagement with a member of the probation staff in each probation trust area in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.
The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Probation staff are required to record meetings with offenders on the case management IT system for their trust as part of their day to day management of offenders. However, there is no central report that would provide the data that have been requested and to answer the question would require each trust to interrogate its database to provide a report for NOMS. These data would then have to be reconciled and collated centrally.
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