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Victim Support
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department's future funding plans are for Victim Support Services. [188487]
Paul Goggins [holding answer 14 September 2004]: In recent years the Home Office grant to victim support has more than doubled, from £11.7 million at the start of the financial year 1997–98 to £30 million in 2004–05. We anticipate that the level of Home Office funding for victim support will continue to be in the region of £30 million for 2005–06 and 2006–07.
Volunteers
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of (a) adults and (b) children who volunteer in the UK. [189398]
Fiona Mactaggart:
According to the Home Office Citizenship Survey 2003, which covered England and Wales, 42 per cent. of people aged 16 and over (17.9 million people) volunteered formally 1 at least once in the 12 months before interview; and 28 per cent. (11.8 million people), at least once a month in the 12 months before interview. 62 per cent. of people aged 16 and over (26.4 million people) volunteered informally 2 at least once in the 12 months before interview; 37 per cent. (15.6 million people), at least once a month in the 12 months before interview. 3
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According to the Young People's Boost to the Home Office Citizenship Survey 2003, 63 per cent. of young people aged between 11 and 15 volunteered formally at least once in the 12 months before interview. For technical reasons it has not been possible to estimate the number of young people in England and Wales who volunteered formally.
There is no comparable information available for formal and informal volunteering in the UK. The main report of findings from the Home Office Citizenship Survey 2003 will be published shortly by the Home Office. The report of findings from the Young People's Boost will be published shortly by the Department for Education and Skills.
Reports of findings from the Home Office Citizenship Survey 2001 and 2003 have been placed in the House of Commons Library.
1 Formal volunteering is defined as giving help unpaid through groups, clubs or organisations to benefit other people or the environment.
2 Informal volunteering is defined as giving help unpaid as individuals to others who were not members of their families.
3 Estimates of the numbers of people volunteering formally and informally were based on 2002-based projections of population for 2003 provided by the Government Actuary's Department.
Work Permits (Care Homes)
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work permit applications were received in respect of the residential care home sector in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [189308]
Mr. Browne: It is not possible to identify the number of work permit applications received in respect of the residential care home sector without incurring disproportionate cost.
Young Offenders
Mr. Oaten:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young offenders aged
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18 to 21 have been moved between prisons on overcrowding drafts (a) this year and (b) in each of the last five years. [187230]
Paul Goggins: This information on overcrowding drafts is not available, as the reasons for transfers are not recorded centrally.
Altogether there were around 13,000 inter-prison transfers of young prisoners (aged 18 to 20) in 2003–04. As this figure refers to all movements in this period, it may include some young prisoners who were transferred more than once during this period. It is not possible to identify how many of these transfers were on overcrowding drafts, although the considerable majority will have been the result of normal sentence planning procedures.
Information on inter-prison transfers of young prisoners in previous years was not centrally recorded and is not available.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many youths under the age of 18 from the Buckingham constituency have been held in young offenders rehabilitation centres in each year since 2001. [189859]
Paul Goggins: The number of young people under 18 remanded in or sentenced to custody by Buckinghamshire courts since 2001 is shown in the table, together with the types of establishment they were held in. We do not have separate information for the Buckingham constituency.
| Remanded 1 | Sentenced | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STC | LASCH | YOI | STC | LASCH | YOI | |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 23 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
(56) to avoid double counting, young people remanded in custody who were later given a custodial sentence are shown in the remanded column only.
STCs are Secure Training Centres; LASCHs are Local Authority Secure Children's Homes (the data on both these come from the Youth Justice Board ) and YOIs are Prison Service Young Offender Institutions (the data on these come from the Prison Service ).