Written questions by O'Brien.

What the total operating cost to HM Prison and Probation Service of running Approved Premises was in each of the last five financial years.

Awaiting answer.

How many people were resident in Approved Premises in England and Wales on the most recent date for which data is available, and in each of the last five years.

Awaiting answer.

With reference to Table 8 of the Restricted Patients Statistics, England and Wales, 2025 release, published on 30 April 2026, of the 297 restricted patients recalled to hospital following conditional discharge, how many had been conditionally discharged by (a) the Secretary of State and (b) a Tribunal.

Awaiting answer.

With reference to the answer of 11 June 2026 to Question 7174, how many employees in HMPPS under the Occupational Psychologist profession are i) psychology administrators and ii) groupworkers.

HM Prison & Probation Service currently employs 69 psychology administrators, including 11 sandwich student placements, and 384 groupworkers.These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, ...

With reference to the answer of 11 June to Question 7174, how many employees in HMPPS under the Occupational Psychologist profession are i) trainee psychologists and ii) treatment managers.

HM Prison & Probation Service currently employs 190 trainee forensic psychologists, and 130 treatment managers. For the purpose of the annual Civil Service employment statistics, both groups are currently categorised under the Government’s ‘Occupation...

With reference to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 4454, how many employees in HMPPS are under the Government's "Occupational Psychologist" profession, broken down into (a) forensic psychologists and (b) non

A range of psychology-related occupations are categorised under the “occupational psychologist” profession in official statistics. As of 8 June 2026, 496 registered psychologists were employed by HM Prison & Probation Service. 490 of these (99%) are f...

If he will publish a breakdown by individual country of birth and the number of offences of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) theft offences, (e) criminal damage and arson, (f

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.

If he will provide a breakdown by place of birth of those people convicted of an offence over the last year.

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.

How many offenders had their country of birth recorded as i) UK, ii) any non-UK and iii) not known for offences of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) theft offences, (e) crimin

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.

Whether forensic psychologists employed by HMPPS are categorised under the Government's 'Occupational Psychologist' profession for the purpose of official Civil Service employment statistics.

Forensic psychologists employed by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), and those in training, are currently categorised under the Government’s ‘Occupational Psychologist’ profession for the purpose of official Civil Service employment stat...

With reference to table 4 of the Restricted Patients Statistics, published on 30 April 2026, how many restricted patients detained in hospital and admitted not from prison, who had previously been discharged into

The data requested are not collected. To do so would require a new manual process and is therefore subject to a cost exemption. However, the annual totals of restricted patients admitted from a previous conditional discharge (via recall from the community...

If he will publish the number of conviction occasions on the Police National Computer split by offence group and nationality of offender, for each quarter since Q3 2024.

The Ministry of Justice keeps the contents of its Official Statistics under continuous review, to ensure compliance with the three pillars of the Code of Practice for Statistics; trustworthiness, quality and value. At present, we do not routinely publish ...

If he will publish the number of conviction occasions on the Police National Computer split by disposal category and nationality of offender, for each quarter since Q3 2024.

The Ministry of Justice keeps the contents of its Official Statistics under continuous review, to ensure compliance with the three pillars of the Code of Practice for Statistics; trustworthiness, quality and value. At present, we do not routinely publish ...

How many people paid court fines in the (a) quarter ending in November 2025 and (b) other four most recent quarters for which data is available.

There is no central data available on the number of people who have paid court fines. It would be necessary to interrogate all records manually. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

What the total value of court-imposed fines outstanding in England and Wales is.

Financial penalties imposed by the courts will often consist of multiple elements including, amongst others, compensation, victim surcharge, prosecutor’s costs and a fine. The imposition is enforced as a whole, and any receipts received are applied to the offender’s account in accordance with a strict legal hierarchy. This ensures that the victims receive any monies they are due first, with the fine element being the last to be collected. This can result in the fine element, which is the punitive element of an imposition taking longer to be paid.The Government takes the recovery and enforcement of all financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to ensuring impositions are paid. The courts will do everything within their powers to trace those who do not pay and use a variety of sanctions to ensure the recovery of criminal fines and financial penalties. These sanctions can include deducting money from an individual offender’s earnings or benefits, if they are unemployed, or issuing warrants instructing approved enforcement agents to seize and sell goods belonging to the offender. If the offender does not pay as ordered and the money cannot be recovered by other means, then the court can take other actions which includes sending them to prison for non-payment of the financial penalty including a fine.The value of outstanding fines is reported annually in the HMCTS Trust Statement, the information can be found on page 35 in table 4, using the link below, the outstanding value at 31 March 2025 was £1,139,192,851 We anticipate the data for the 31 March 2026 being published in July 2026.HM Courts & Tribunals Service Trust Statement 2024-25

How many children aged (a) under one, (b) one, (c) two, (d) three, (e) four, (f) five, (g) six, (h) seven, (i) eight, (j) nine and (k) ten and over years old were (i) adopted and (ii) subject of a Special Guardianship Order in each year since 2021.

Data on age of children subject to adoption and Special Guardianship Orders is routinely published in the quarterly Family Court Statistics and the relevant tables are attached.

How many children aged (a) under one years old, (b) aged between one and four years old and (c) aged five years and older were (i) adopted and (ii) given a Special guardianship order in each year since 1996.

Data on the age of the children subject to adoption and Special Guardianship Orders is routinely published in Family Court Quarterly statistics and the relevant tables are attached.Data prior to 2011 is not readily available and to source it would incur disproportionate costs.

How many hours of unpaid work were (a) sentenced and (b) credited in each of the last five years.

Between July 2021 and June 2025, a total of 24,341,125 hours of unpaid work were sentenced in England and Wales. In the same period, 17,614,065 hours of unpaid work were credited in England and Wales.By Performance Year Hours of unpaid work sentenced Hours of unpaid work credited July 2021 to March 2022*4,351,6552,769,930April 2022 to March 20235,943,4554,499,655April 2023 to March 20246,108,4054,683,290April 2024 to March 20256,273,2904,520,280April 2025 to June 2025*1,664,3201,140,910Periods marked with an asterisk (*) indicate incomplete performance years.Hours sentenced are the number of hours that the offender is required to work as part of the sentence of the court.Upon attendance of the unpaid work session, the time the offender spends working will be credited towards the number of hours they have been ordered to complete. This includes where a person attends a session and subsequently fails to comply with instructions or is sent home due to poor behaviour, or where service issues during the day cause a session to be cancelled.Data from April 2022 to June 2025 sourced from the latest published statistics on unpaid work. A link can be found here - Unpaid work management information, update to June 2025 - GOV.UKData from July 2021 to March 2022 sourced from nDelius on 13/04/2026. While these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.Data from the biannual Unpaid Work publication are rounded to the nearest five hours worked for data suppression purposes and yearly totals are calculated on the rounded values of each quarter. To be consistent with the publication, the same principle has been applied to data between July 2021 and March 2022.The next publication is due on 14 May 2026.Data are provided from July 2021, the month following the reunification of the Probation Service.

What the total annual cost of administering the Community Payback scheme was in each of the last five years; and what the average cost per (a) sentence and (b) completed hour of unpaid work was in each of those years.

Financial Year Total Community Payback Unpaid Work Spend (£) 2021/22£47,340,4922022/23£77,175,8932023/24£89,614,9152024/25£96,014,945In terms of what the total cost covers, it is things such as staffing costs, fleet (vans) and tools.We do not hold information on average cost per sentence in the format requested.The average cost per hour of Unpaid Work credited was £17.15 (2022/23), £19.14 (2023/24) and £21.24 (2024/25). Data are not provided for the performance year 2021/22 as this is only a partial year of data following the reunification of the Probation Service.The average cost per hour credited is calculated by dividing the total spend by the number of hours credited in each year.

What proportion of people who received a sentence of unpaid work failed to (a) start and (b) complete their sentence in each of the last five years.

The data requested can be found in the following table:Sentence Financial Year% individuals who failed to start UPW% individuals who failed to complete UPW2021/22*8.4%40.7%2022/237.8%36.4%2023/246.2%34.2%2024/256.1%36.7%Periods marked with an asterisk (*) indicate incomplete performance years. The data provided is from July 2021, the month following the reunification of the Probation Service.All data has been sourced from nDelius on 13/04/2026. While this data has been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.Please note, data relating to those sentenced in 2025/26 has not been provided as recording of this period is still ongoing and it would therefore not portray a true reflection of current performance.