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Statutory Instruments
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what occasions a statutory instrument sponsored by his Department has been reported by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments as defective since October 2005. [85189]
Mr. McNulty: Between the beginning of October 2005 and 5 July 2006, the only occasion when the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) raised a question about the content of a Home Office SI was in relation to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I.2005/1521). This followed a decision by the divisional court that certain provisions in the Order were ultra vires. There has subsequently been a successful appeal against that decision in the Court of Appeal.
Reports from the JCSI contain full details of the statutory instruments which they have reported. SI 2005/1521 is considered in the Sixth Report of the JCSI for Session 2005-06.
Violent Crime (Licensed Premises)
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many violent offences in connection with licensed premises there have been in (a) non-rural and (b) rural areas in relation to (i) adults and (ii) under age people in (A) absolute terms and (B) per 1,000 population in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [84630]
Mr. McNulty: The information is not available centrally.
World Cup
Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much additional funding has been made available to police forces during the period of the World Cup to help maintain law and order in town centres and other areas with high numbers of licensed premises. [78327]
Mr. McNulty: None. The Police Service in England and Wales has had a huge increase in funding in recent years. The use of these resources is a matter for each chief constable and police authority to determine in the light of local and competing priorities.
Young Offenders
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 26 June 2006, Official Report, Column 122W, on young offenders, how much of the additional £45 million funding allocated to youth offending teams has been received by Sefton council; how many additional members of staff will be recruited; where they will be located; what their primary duties are; and how their performance will be assessed. [85978]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Sefton Youth Offending Team (YOT) is receiving a total Youth Justice Board (YJB) prevention grant of £347,222 between November 2005 and March 2008, which it is using to fund its existing Youth Inclusion Programme (YIP) and a new Youth Inclusion and Support Panel (YISP). £177,222 of this comes from the additional 45 million funding and £170,000 is part of ongoing YIP funding.
Two additional YISP staff will be recruited. These will be in addition to the existing YIP staff. Both new posts are located in the Sefton Centre for Restorative Practice in Stanley Road, Bootle.
The primary duty of the YISP co-ordinator is to be responsible for the development and implementation of the work of the YISP, in order to ensure that the YISP delivers effective services to address the needs of children referred to the panel, within a restorative practice framework.
The YISP key worker will be responsible for the management of a caseload and overseeing the delivery of intervention designed to address the needs of those children.
The YOT has an effective workforce strategy to manage the performance of individual members of staff that is integrated with the council's performance management framework. The YIP and YISP programmes in Sefton will be monitored and supported through the YJB's performance management framework which ensures YOTs provide quarterly data returns to the YJB to gauge outputs and outcomes, includes monitoring by YJB staff, and provides for mechanisms for supporting individual YOTs should there be poor performance issues.
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