Prison
Facts and Figures about the MoJ
The National Audit Office’s departmental overview provides some fascinating facts and figures about the MoJ.
19th January 2023
Menu
Tags are keywords. I put tags on every post to help you find the content you want. Tags may be people (Dominic Raab, say), organisations (The Howard League, PRT), themes (women offenders, homelessness) or specific items (heroin, racial disparity, ROTL). If you’re looking to research a particular issue, they can be invaluable.
The National Audit Office’s departmental overview provides some fascinating facts and figures about the MoJ.
What has the MoJ been up to and how did it spend its £8.4bn budget?
What has the MoJ been up to and how did it spend its £7.7bn budget?
Refreshed single departmental plan has 4 stripped down objectives: Provide a prison and probation service that reforms offenders; Deliver a modern courts and justice system; Promote a global Britain and the rule of law; and Transform the department.
The MoJ acknowledges strategic evidence gaps and asks the research community to help address them.
The Ministry of Justice has responded swiftly and with apparent sincerity to the challenge of rectifying the racial disparity highlighted by David Lammy.
Key expenditure and performance findings from the Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts for 2016/17
The MoJ announces a new crackdown on corporate economic crime and puts out a call for evidence to help deliberations on whether new legislation is needed.
Intriguing and concerning new report from the MoJ traces the massive growth in our use of incarceration at the same time as the crime rate was falling.
Overall, this is a young and inexperienced ministerial team under the leadership of a young and inexperienced Justice Secretary. We will have to wait and see whether this means they can bring a fresh perspective or are vulnerable to being out-manoeuvred by vested interests.
MoJ commits itself to prison reform: “We will change the way we run prisons so there is an unremitting emphasis on rehabilitation and redemption.”
In times of austerity it becomes more important than ever to acknowledge that safe and decent prisons only come about by listening to staff and inmates. I would seek to dismantle the present MoJ command and control structure and return to a position where Governors have authority to innovate and find local solutions that can improve each regime as they see fit.
