131Resources: effect of factors not related to sentencingE+W
(1)The annual report for a financial year must contain a non-sentencing factors report.
(2)The Council may, at any other time, provide the Lord Chancellor with a non-sentencing factors report, and may publish that report.
(3)A non-sentencing factors report is a report by the Council of any significant quantitative effect (or any significant change in quantitative effect) which non-sentencing factors are having or are likely to have on the resources needed or available for giving effect to sentences imposed by courts in England and Wales.
(4)Non-sentencing factors are factors which do not relate to the sentencing practice of the courts, and include—
(a)the recalling of persons to prison;
(b)breaches of orders within subsection (5);
(c)patterns of re-offending;
(d)decisions or recommendations for release made by the Parole Board;
(e)the early release under discretionary powers of persons detained in prison;
(f)the remanding of persons in custody.
(5)The orders within this subsection are—
(a)community orders (within [F1the meaning given by section 200 of the Sentencing Code]),
(b)suspended sentence orders (within [F2the meaning given by section 286 of that Code]), and
(c)youth rehabilitation orders (within [F3the meaning given by section 173 of that Code]).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 131(5)(a) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 279(a) (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2
F2Words in s. 131(5)(b) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 279(b) (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2
F3Words in s. 131(5)(c) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 279(c) (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2
Commencement Information
I1S. 131 in force at 6.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/816, art. 2, Sch. para. 8