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		Budgeted net expenditure by local authorities in the South East of England Government Office Region on Youth Services( 1)
		2007-08		2008-09( 3)
LEA number	Local authority name	£( 4)	£ per pupil aged 13-19( 5)	£( 4)	£ per pupil aged 13-19( 5)
	England	410,373,000	170	451,393,000	188
South East Government Office Region		56,144,000	141	56,948,000	143
	Bracknell Forest	968,000	176	1,022,000	178
	Brighton and Hove	1,135,000	111	1,137,000	111
	Buckinghamshire	3,304,000	125	3,857,000	144
	East Sussex	1,941,000	90	2,185,000	101
	Hampshire	6,282,000	126	5,873,000	117
	Isle of Wight	1,336,000	204	1,375,000	212
	Kent	8,845,000	117	8,078,000	105
	Medway	1,437,000	101	1,782,000	124
	Milton Keynes	2,466,000	224	2,743,000	247
	Oxfordshire	4,000,000	120	3,889,000	119
	Portsmouth	1,297,000	171	1,431,000	193
	Reading	1,410,000	257	1,231,000	221
	Slough	1,153,000	184	1,608,000	247
	Southampton	1,749,000	212	1,784,000	221
	Surrey	9,970,000	187	10,024,000	189
	West Berkshire	1,323,000	127	1,374,000	132
	West Sussex	5,250,000	151	5,183,000	149
	Windsor and Maidenhead	1,246,000	136	1,343,000	149
	Wokingham	1,032,000	125	1,029,000	124
(1) Youth service includes the following items of planned expenditure on the Youth Service and youth work: Employees Staff Training Premises related expenditure Transport related expenditure Supplies and services Third-party payments Support services Youth work costs at residential and non-residential youth centres Youth work costs at activity at outdoor and urban studies centres Grant funding to the voluntary sector for youth work. Financial data are drawn from local authorities’ 2008-09 Children, Schools and Families Financial Data Collection (Budget) Statements and 2001-02 to 2007-08.Section 52 Budget Statements (Table 1) submitted to the DCSF. (2) The 2001-02 and 2002-03 figures also include any Local Authority Youth Service provision that contributed to the delivery of the Connexions Service plus any Connexions Service specific funding. (3) 2008-09 budget data remain provisional and subject to change by the local authority. (4) Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand pounds and may not sum due to rounding. (5) The figures for £ per pupil aged 13-19 are derived by dividing the total budgeted net expenditure on youth services by the total number of pupils aged 13-19 in all nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, pupil referral units, independent schools, city technology colleges and academies derived from the January School Census returns made by schools to the Department.

Youth Sport Trust

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what funding his Department has allocated to the Youth Sport Trust over the next three years; and if he will make a statement. [247411]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Department is paying grant of £13,460,576 to the Youth Sport Trust for work in connection with the PE and Sport Strategy for Young People in 2008/09. Work in this area for 2009/10 and 2010/11 will be procured through a competitive tendering exercise, for which the Youth Sport Trust will be entitled to bid. Funding for this work will come from total Government funding of £782 million set aside to deliver the PE and Sport Strategy for Young People from 2008 to 2011.

Justice

Antisocial Behaviour: Fixed Penalties

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what (a) minimum and (b) maximum fine may be imposed by a penalty notice for disorder for (i) possession of cannabis, (ii) being drunk or disorderly in a public place and (iii) using fireworks after curfew. [249534]

Maria Eagle: The penalty which may be imposed by a penalty notice for disorder for the offences of (ii) being drunk and disorderly in a public place and (iii) using fireworks after curfew, is fixed at £80. The penalty for possession of cannabis will also be £80 once the offence comes into force, subject to parliamentary approval.

If no payment is received or court hearing requested within the suspended enforcement period, a fine of £120, one and half times the penalty amount, is registered by the courts.

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Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what percentage of penalty notices for disorder which remained unpaid (a) six and (b) 12 months after issue in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [249537]

Maria Eagle: The total number and percentage of penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) which were not
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paid from 2004 to 2007 in England and Wales can be viewed in the table. It is not possible to break down the data further into those which remain unpaid at (a) six and (b) 12 months as this information is not held centrally.

PND data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.

Number of Penalty Notices for Disorder issued to all persons aged 16 and over, by outcome, England and Wales 2004 - 07( 1,2)
	Outcome
	Number issued	Total paid in full	Percentage paid	Total unpaid	Percentage unpaid
2004	63,639	33,078	52	30,561	48
2005	146,481	77,247	53	69,234	47
2006	201,197	104,546	52	96,651	48
2007	207,544	106,925	52	100,619	48
(1) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (2) Penalty Notices for Disorder came into force in November 2004. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Evidence and Analysis Unit

Cannabis: Penalty Notices

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the maximum quantity of cannabis of which an individual may be found in possession is before it would be considered appropriate to issue a penalty notice for disorder according to his Department’s guidelines. [249535]

Maria Eagle: Penalty notices for disorder are not currently available in respect of possession of cannabis. When, subject to parliamentary approval, penalty notices for disorder become available for this offence, the Secretary of State will issue guidance under section 6 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 about their appropriate use.

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when his Department’s consultation on the use of penalty notices for disorder for cannabis possession offences was launched; and to whom the relevant consultation document was sent. [250890]

Maria Eagle: The proposal that cannabis possession should be added to the penalty notice for disorder scheme was made public in October 2008. There was no formal consultation document.

Corporate Manslaughter

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make it his policy to bring into force immediately the remaining provisions of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007; and if he will make a statement. [249893]

Maria Eagle: With two exceptions, all provisions in the Act were commenced on 6 April 2008. The exceptions are:

Section 2(1 )(d) which extends the offence to duties of care relating to those detained at a custodial institution or in a custody area at a court or police station; detained at a removal centre or short-term holding facility; being transported in a vehicle, or being held in any premises, in pursuance of prison escort arrangements or immigration escort arrangements; living in secure accommodation in which they have been placed; and detained patients. The Government are firmly committed to implementing this provision within three to five years from the time that the new offence was commenced. Where implementation can occur sooner with respect to certain organisations, we will put the necessary arrangements in place to achieve this and will keep Parliament updated of any developments in this regard. As stated in our first report to Parliament in July last year, all the custody providers in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are working towards the provisions being commenced by April 2011.

Section 10 which provides for the court to require a publicity order. We will implement this section following the issue of a guideline from the Sentencing Guidelines Council since this is a new disposal where we felt it important for guidance to be in place from the outset.

Corporate Manslaughter: Prosecutions

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) charges and (b) convictions there have been in (i) Essex and (ii) England under the provisions of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 since implementation of the Act. [249892]

Maria Eagle: The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into force on 6 April 2008 and only applies to offences committed after that date.

Charging data are not held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. Prosecution data are normally provided in lieu. Court proceedings data for 2008 will not be available until the autumn of 2009.

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