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| 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | ||||
| Age (at time of offence) | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage |
| Total | ||||||
| 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | ||||
| Age (at time of offence) | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage |
Note that the sum of male and female offenders in the above table may not match the total exactly owing to gender not being recorded on a small number of cases. An equivalent breakdown by age for offenders living in England only is not available owing to the method used to allocate records where insufficient address data are available.
Youth Custody: Education
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 18 January 2010, Official Report, column 27W, on youth custody, how many hours on average a young person under the age of 18 years spent per day in education, training and personal development in each (a) secure children's home, (b) secure training centre and (c) young offenders institution in the latest period for which figures are available. [314583]
Mr. Coaker: The Youth Justice Board reports the number of hours per week that young people spend undertaking education, training and personal development activities across the secure estate. This is a broad category that includes education provision delivered by learning providers commissioned by the Learning and Skills Council, as well as interventions, group work sessions, vocational training, and physical education classes delivered directly by the Prison Service or institution.
The YJB have introduced a new set of data items to allow them to monitor the secure estate. Data based on a new and more robust set of indicators are presented here for STCs and SCHs for September 2009. Data using the previous indicator are presented for YOIs. This information is presented in the following tables.
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) reports that the average number of hours of OLASS funded learning and skills provision (not including personal development
activity) delivered per learner per week in the public sector YOIs in the academic year 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2009 was 15.89 hours.
Data are not broken down to show the number of hours spent on education, training and personal development by young people held on remand but the information from the YJB and the LSC includes young people held on remand.
The data supplied by the Youth Justice Board are drawn from administrative computer systems. As with any large scale recording system, the data are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and may be subject to change over time.
Cabinet Office
Census
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 17 November 2008, Official Report, column 236W, on the Census, what the latest estimated cost is of developing the address register being created for the 2011 Census; what use will be made of the register after the 2011 Census; and whether not-for-profit groups will have access to the register. [312368]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Dennis Roberts, dated January 2010:
The Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the latest estimated cost is of developing the address register being created for the 2011 Census; what use will be made of the register after the 2011 Census; and whether not-for-profit groups will have access to the register. I am replying in his absence. (312368)
The total cost of developing the address register up to and through the Census collection period (mid 2011) is now estimated at £10M. This is a reduction from earlier estimates of £12M as the result of a better focused and more efficient field check. These costs are considered necessary and good value for the Census because no single national product provides a suitable address list for Census. These costs include some licensing and operational costs which would have been incurred even if a single national source had existed.
The address register being developed is intended and licensed only for use in the 2011 Census. ONS will not destroy the register after Census but licensing and legal issues around ownership of the source address data mean that we are not able to make the address register available for use by other government departments or others. Accordingly, not-for-profit groups, in common with all other parties, will not have access to the register. However, new addresses found through the ONS address check in mid 2010 will be made available to all of the address source suppliers.
There are currently no plans for further use of the register to support future censuses or other statistical work but options for such work are being considered. If a case can be made for further use of the register then changes and extensions to existing licensing agreements would be required.
We would like to see the address register (excluding those addresses found during the census field operation, which are deemed confidential under the 1920 Census Act) built upon for further and wider use. Maintenance of the list beyond the 201 1 Census, however, falls outside the resources and the remit of the current project, and of ONS as a whole. Steps are being taken, however, to ensure that processes are repeatable and ONS would support the wider use of the register if this can be managed.
Census: Training
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to paragraph 10.25 of the Census 2001 General report for England and Wales, whether appropriately trained specialist field staff will be employed in the 2011 Census. [314843]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated February 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking with reference to paragraph 10.25 of the 2001 Census General report for England and Wales, whether appropriately trained specialist field staff will be employed in the 2011 Census. (314843)
As in previous censuses there is requirement under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act Code of Practice for Interviews under Caution to be conducted with persons who refuse to comply with their statutory obligation to complete a census return. Such interviews have traditionally been carried out by enumeration field staff but evidence from the evaluation of the 2001 Census showed that it would be more effective to have separate field staff to perform the enforcement procedures.
For the 2011 Census, staff who are experienced or specially trained in undertaking such interviews will follow up cases where there has been a clear and persistent refusal to make a census return. In this way evidence may be gathered that will be sufficiently robust to satisfy the courts whenever prosecution action is taken. The Treasury Select Committee, in its report on the 2001 Census, was critical of the low number of cases referred for prosecution.
Prosecution will, however, only be a last resort at the end of a long process of offering opportunity, encouragement and assistance for members of the public to complete questionnaires.
Charities: Educational Institutions
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many educational institutions have been investigated by the Charity Commission in each of the last five years; and what the reason was for each investigation. [314760]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Charity Commission. I have asked the Commission to reply.
Letter from Andrew Hind, dated 1 February 2010:
As the Chief Executive of the Charity Commission, I have been asked to respond to your written Parliamentary Question (314760) on the number of educational institutions investigated by the Charity Commission in each of the last five years, and the reasons for these investigations.
We cannot readily identify those charities which are educational institutions, as the way in which we record our information about investigatory work does not identify types of institutions, only
their charitable purposes. As you will appreciate, these are widely varied given the diversity of the charitable sector.
Charities which list education as part of their purposes make up approximately half the total number of charities on the Register. They include schools, universities and colleges, through to think tanks and educational research institutions as well as community organisations and those that provide adult learning classes.
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