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Summary: IMPORTANT NOTE: On 22 February 2010, the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor announced that the ECL scheme would end on 12 March 2010. All prisoners who were eligible for release on ECL on or before 12 March have been released. Prisoners who had, by 22 February, been formally notified, under form ECL3, of release dates under the scheme up to and including 9 April, would also be released. No prisoners will be released on ECL from and including 10 April. The report to be published at the end of April will include releases for March and up to and including 9 April, and recalls notified to NOMS by 26 April 2010. This will be the last monthly report. A set of final tables on the scheme will be published in Offender Management Caseload Statistics in July 2010. This will include any recall notifications that occurred after 26 April.

Summary: Quarterly statistical release on the use of community sentences, including monitoring the impact of the new community sentences introduced under the Criminal Justice Act 2003. The publication also contains information on offenders being supervised pre- or post- release from custodial sentence, and on the number of court reports written by the Probation Service.

Summary: The quarterly release presents statistics on insolvency proceedings issued in the county courts and High Court for both individuals (bankruptcy petitions) and businesses (company winding up petitions) in England and Wales. Note that these figures represent court activity and not the actual numbers of individual or business insolvencies. The Insolvency Service publishes parallel quarterly statistics on this issue.

Summary: The quarterly releases present statistics on possession actions issued in county courts by mortgage lenders and social and private landlords in England and Wales. Note that the figures represent court actions for possession and not actual homes repossessed, as not all possession orders are enforced.

Summary: The latest statistics on the reoffending of adults on the probation caseload, released by the Ministry of Justice. The quarterly release presents statistics on the reoffending of adults under supervision of the probation service in England and Wales. Data are available at the regional, probation area and local authority level. The release also measures progress on local targets to reduce reoffending: National Indicator 18 – Adult reoffending rates for those under probation supervision.

Summary: The quarterly release presents results from a one-week survey of criminal cases completed in magistrates' courts in England and Wales. The publication contains estimates of the average time between key milestone dates in a case, broken down by case type and criminal justice area. It is a key source of data on timeliness in the criminal justice system.

Summary: The publication describes trends in cautioning and sentencing, probation supervision and prison population for possession of a knife or offensive weapon in England and Wales. It provides early indications of trends and is planned as a temporary release to cover the life and impact of the Tackling Knives Action Programme, which was launched to focus resources on rapid, intensive work in 10 areas of England and Wales to tackle knife crime.

Summary: These quarterly reports relate to the criminal and civil business of the family, county, crown and magistrates' courts in England and Wales.

Summary: These annual reports relate to the criminal and civil business of the courts in England and Wales for whose administration the Ministry of Justice is responsible. They also cover the work of some associated offices including the Office of the Public Guardian and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Statistics relating to Northern Ireland courts are available separately from the Northern Ireland Court Service.

Summary: Quarterly report on Tribunal performance statistics including volumetrics and performance indicators.