---

18 Dec 2002 : Column 844W—continued

Punishment Orders

Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times (a) reparation orders, (b) final warnings, (c) action plan orders, (d) preventing orders and (e) court ordered secure remands have been issued in each month since their introduction. [86177]

Hilary Benn [holding answer 9 December 2002]: The number of reparation orders, final warnings, action plan orders, parenting orders and court ordered secure remands are set out in the tables. The Youth Justice Board has provided the data from April 2000 onwards from returns provided by Youth Offending Teams.

As there is no intervention called a preventing order, we have assumed that the information requested is for parenting orders.

Reparation orders, final warnings, action plan orders and parenting orders made between October 1998 and 30 September 2002⁽⁴⁾

	October 1998–March 2000(5)	April–June 2000(6)	July–September 2000	October–December 2000	January–March 2001	April–June 2001
Reparation order	1,270	605	1,800	1,802	2,077	2,196
Final warnings	3,504	4,434	7,274	7,332	7,095	7,657
Action plan order	841	619	2,027	2,236	2,497	2,388
Parenting order	284	144	302	278	255	278
Total	5,899	5,802	11,403	11,648	11,924	12,519

18 Dec 2002 : Column 845W

	July–September 2001	October–December 2001	January–March 2002	April–June 2002	July–September 2002	Total
Reparation order	1,947	1,988	2,493	1,367	823	18,368
Final warnings	6,994	6,660	6,950	7,040	5,708	70,648
Action plan order	2,214	2,191	2,682	1,596	1,153	20,444
Parenting order	263	270	406	239	402	3,121
Total	11,418	11,109	12,531	10,242	8,086	112,581

⁽⁴⁾ Data for reparation orders, final warnings, action plan orders and parenting orders include the period of the youth justice pilots, from October 1998 to March 2000, as well as national operation from then until the third quarter of 2002.

⁽⁵⁾ Data for youth justice pilots only available as totals. The police final warning scheme, parenting orders, reparation order, and action plan order were piloted in selected areas across England and Wales between October 1998 and March 2000.

⁽⁶⁾ Data for national operation since the youth justice pilots ended has been collected by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) based on returns from Youth Offending Teams (YOTs). These data are only available on a quarterly basis and the figures are provisional as they as based on YOT returns.

Court ordered secure remands made between 1 June 1999– 30 November 2002⁽⁷⁾

	Number
June 1999	73
July 1999	79
August 1999	94
September 1999	111
October 1999	131
November 1999	139
December 1999	103
January 2000	110
February 2000	140
March 2000	131
April 2000	(11)78
May 2000	52
June 2000	70
July 2000	58
August 2000	60
September 2000	45
October 2000	64
November 2000	44
December 2000	46
January 2001	71
February 2001	53
March 2001	51
April 2001	69
May 2001	71
June 2001	65
July 2001	102
August 2001	103
September 2001	94
October 2001	143
November 2001	142
December 2001	88
January 2002	136
February 2002	139
March 2002	151
April 2002	168
May 2002	201
June 2002	143
July 2002	194
August 2002	181
September 2002	205
October 2002	186
November 2002	181
Total	4,565

⁽⁷⁾ Data for court ordered secure remands based on monthly returns collected by the Home Office between 1 June 1999 to April 2000. From April 2000, the YJB assumed responsibility for commissioning and purchasing secure remand places and they have provided the data from May 2000 to November 2002.

⁽⁸⁾ Due to the transfer of secure remand responsibilities to the YJB from the Home Office during April 2000 only partial data are available for this month based on 60 per cent. of returns received from Local Authority Secure Units.

18 Dec 2002 : Column 846W

Secure Units

Mrs. Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many places in (a) local authority secure units, (b) young offender institutions and (c) secure training centres are planned in (i) 2002–03, (ii) 2003–04, and (iii) 2004–05. [85199]

Hilary Benn: The Youth Justice Board is responsible for purchasing an appropriate number of juvenile secure places from the providers. The number of places available in 2002–03 on 1 December 2002 and planned for 2003–04, subject to final decisions on allocation of funds following the Spending Review 2002 Settlement, are as follows.

	2002–03	2003–04
Local Authority Secure Units	330	330
Young Offender Institutions	3,066	3,066
Secure Training Centres	170	194

Discussions are continuing between the Department and the Youth Justice Board about the provision of places in 2004–05.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Appointments

Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development to which bodies her Department makes appointments; how many members there are (a) in total and (b) in each body; and how many of those appointed are (i) businessmen, (ii) businessmen in SMEs and (iii) businessmen in micro-businesses. [87393]

Clare Short: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given on 16 December 2002, by the Minister of State, Cabinet Office on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Burundi

Mr. Joyce: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) what funding commitment was made by the United Kingdom at the November Geneva Round Table Donors' Meeting on Burundi; and what conditions were placed on the fulfilment of this commitment; [87145]

18 Dec 2002 : Column 847W

(2) what funding commitment was made by the United Kingdom to Burundi at the Geneva Round Table Donors' Meeting of December 2001; what conditions were placed on the fulfilment of this commitment; and what proportion of this funding has been paid to date; [87147]

(3) what funding commitment was made by the United Kingdom to Burundi at the Paris Donors Club Meeting of December 2000; what conditions were placed on the fulfilment of this commitment; and what proportion of this funding has been paid to date. [87146]

Clare Short: At the Paris Donors Roundtable Meeting in December 2000 we stated that although the UK would not become a substantial bilateral donor to Burundi we would play our part in support of others, particularly the multilateral agencies. We stated that we would continue our existing bilateral assistance (mainly humanitarian assistance, work with the media, HIV/AIDS prevention, and peace building). We said we would look favourably on making a contribution to the World Bank Multilateral Debt Trust Fund (MDTF). At the Geneva Round Table Meeting in December 2001 we pledged US$1 million to the MDTF. These funds were transferred earlier this year.

At the recent Donors Round Table Meeting in Geneva, held on 27–28 November 2002, we agreed to consider an additional contribution of US$1 million to the MDTF.

Civil Servants

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many civil servants are employed by her Department; and how much money was spent by her Department in the last 12 months in each local authority area. [87262]

Clare Short: On the number of civil servants, I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer provided by my hon. Friend for the Cabinet Office on 16 December 2002.

The question on local authority areas is not relevant to DFID as our work is focused overseas in developing countries.

Kashmir

Mr. Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what projects (a) funded and (b) supported by her Department have been engaged in providing assistance to the people of Kashmir during the past five years. [87455]

Clare Short: Over the past five years, my Department has given over #1.5 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to support their programmes in Jammu and Kashmir (J and K). We have given a number of grants to Save the Children Fund (SCF) to support their work, including #150,000 to provide food and non-food relief to conflict afflicted families, and #47,000 to help fund their continuing work with children and internally displaced people living in

18 Dec 2002 : Column 848W

camps and temporary accommodation. We have also helped fund a wide range of mostly small-scale NGO development projects in Kashmir, and through the Small Grants Scheme we have provided support for a maternity hospital in Anantnag.

In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, we have funded a community education project in the Muzaffarabad district, and a basic health care project in the Neelum valley.

During my recent visit to Delhi, I raised with the Government of India the prospect of DFID providing further support for development and conflict reduction in J and K. My officials are now taking this forward.

---