Taxpayer-savings calculator
— What MEM saves the public purse · MoJ · NHS · DWPAI methodology guide
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Taxpayer-savings calculator
Adjust the cohort sizes to model the conservative public-purse savings MEM's delivery generates across the Ministry of Justice, NHS and DWP. All unit costs are UK government / NAO / Sport England figures — sources listed below each line.
Based on 250 young people diverted from first entry to youth justice (5% of cohort), 45 ex-offenders diverted from re-offending (30% of cohort), and 60 ex-offenders entering paid coaching work (40% of cohort).
Sources: MoJ Costs per Prisoner 2022/23 (£51,724/yr); Home Office Economic & Social Cost of Crime 2018 (£4,700/incident); NAO Reducing Reoffending.
Sources: PHE Movement for Health; Sport England Social Value Model (£90/active adult/yr; £60/active YP/yr — NHS-cost-only, conservative).
Sources: UC standard allowance £393/mo (single adult, 25+); HMRC PAYE + NI on £22k coaching salary ≈ £2,400/yr.
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- Annual saving
- £4,073,342.5
- MoJ
- £3,474,363
- NHS
- £313,500
- DWP
- £285,480
MEM Academy — taxpayer-savings summary
Generated 12/05/2026 · memacademy.org
£4,073,342.5 estimated annual saving
| Young people supported | 5,000 |
| Ex-offenders supported | 150 |
| Ministry of Justice | £3,474,363 |
| NHS | £313,500 |
| DWP | £285,480 |
HM Treasury Green Book methodology. Conservative — diverted-cohort only. Contact: enquiries@mem.fitness
Methodology: deliberately conservative. We only count diverted-cohort savings (not the full cohort), use NHS-cost-only wellbeing values (not Sport England's full £1,127/person social value), and exclude wider productivity, housing and victim-impact savings. Real figures are almost certainly higher. Full source list available on request — share with your economic adviser to stress-test assumptions for your own commissioning case.
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