Vote Corrections - Estimates of Appropriations 2011/12

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 2011/12 financial year covering the following:

• $584.101 million (49.80% of the Vote) on the provision of custodial services for offenders sentenced to imprisonment
• $199.648 million (17.02% of the Vote) on the management and delivery of sentences and orders served in the community
• $177.265 million (15.11% of the Vote) on the provision of custodial services for remand prisoners (people waiting trial, and offenders convicted but not yet sentenced)
• $140.820 million (12.01% of the Vote) on the provision of prisoner education, prisoner employment, rehabilitative programmes, reintegrative services and psychological services to address the underlying causes of criminal re-offending
• $57.005 million (4.86% 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
• $8.855 million (0.76% of the Vote) on the provision of preparing for and managing contracts for the provision of custodial services by third parties, and
• $5.129 million (0.44% 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 2011/12.

Details of these appropriations are set out in Parts 2-6 for Vote Corrections in the Information Supporting the Estimates of Appropriations.