Vote Corrections
MINISTER(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR APPROPRIATIONS: Minister of Corrections (M18)
ADMINISTERING DEPARTMENT: Department of Corrections
MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS : Minister of Corrections
Overview of the Vote
The Minister of Corrections is responsible for appropriations in Vote Corrections for the 2010/11 financial year covering the following:
- $581.679 million (50.18% of the Vote) on the provision of custodial services for offenders sentenced to imprisonment
- $185.301 million (15.98% of the Vote) on the management and delivery of sentences and orders served in the community
- $172.704 million (14.90% of the Vote) on the provision of custodial services for remand prisoners (people waiting trial, and offenders convicted but not yet sentenced)
- $137.590 million (11.87% of the Vote) on the provision of prisoner education, prisoner employment, rehabilitative programmes, reintegrative services and psychological services all designed to address the underlying causes of criminal re-offending
- $63.538 million (5.48% of the Vote) on the provision of information about offenders to victims of crime, the Judiciary and the New Zealand Parole Board, and the provision of administrative, financial and secretariat services to the New Zealand Parole Board
- $12.900 million (1.14% of the Vote) on the provision of preparing for and managing contracts for the provision of custodial services by third parties
- $5.187 million (0.45% of the Vote) on the provision of ministerial services, the development of policies and the provision of policy advice.
The Department of Corrections does not expect to collect any Crown revenue in 2010/11.
Details of these appropriations are set out in Parts 2-6 for Vote Corrections in the Information Supporting the Estimates of Appropriations.
