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| Type of offence: | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
| (1) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (2) 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 the courts and 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. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services-Ministry of Justice. | ||||||||||||
Tribunals
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many industrial tribunal cases are outstanding. [316135]
Bridget Prentice: At the end of December 2009, there were 387,800 live claims in Employment Tribunals across England, Wales and Scotland.
Young Offenders: Custodial Treatment
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many young adults were in the criminal justice system in (a) Coventry and (b) England in each year since 1997. [316210]
Claire Ward: It is not possible to identify and track individual contacts with the system from the data returned to the Ministry. Collecting and analysing data to answer this question would involve disproportionate cost.
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent steps his Department has taken to improve support for young adults in the criminal justice system. [316211]
Maria Eagle: The National Offender Management Service provides offenders with the opportunity to learn the skills they need to get a job on release or while serving their sentence. Employment is known to be a key factor in helping to reduce re-offending. Our aim therefore is to provide more offenders with the skills and motivation to turn away from crime, improve their employability, and become productive members of society.
Steps being taken to achieve this include:
an integrated Offenders Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) for offenders, planned and funded by the Learning and Skills Council which provides learning and skills opportunities for offenders in custody and for those serving their sentence in the community;
a new OLASS provision for those in custody with significant changes; including the introduction of a core curriculum available in each prison establishment in England;
working with Sector Skills Councils to ensure that learning and skills training and accredited qualifications are relevant to employers and reflect identified labour market shortages and need;
increasingly looking at making the work undertaken within prisons by prisoners as much like real work as possible; and
working with the private sector in partnership to develop employment and skills opportunities for offenders.
The Government's investment in education provision for offenders has risen threefold from £57 million in 2001-02 to more than £175 million in 2009-10.
Young Offenders: Rehabilitation
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department spent on rehabilitation programmes for young people in the criminal justice system in the latest period for which figures are available. [316212]
Maria Eagle: All services commissioned or delivered by youth offending teams (YOTs) to young people within the criminal justice system are intended to rehabilitate them and address the causes of their offending behaviour.
The Youth Justice Board's annual report and accounts 2008-09 shows that it allocated the following funding to YOTs for the delivery of such services to 10 to 17-year-olds within the criminal justice system.
| £ million | |
In addition, a further £297.952 million was spent on the provision of custodial places, this includes on the delivery of education and on substance misuse, which would also serve to rehabilitate young offenders.
Business, Innovation and Skills
Apprentices
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people in each age group (a) started and (b) completed an apprenticeship in each quarter of the last five years. [304159]
Kevin Brennan: The number of people starting an Apprenticeship in England is at a record level and our recent Skills Investment Strategy announced a further expansion of Advanced Apprenticeships to increase the number of skilled technicians in priority areas. Table 1 and 2 show apprenticeship starts and achievements, by age group and quarter for academic years 2004-05 to 2008-09 (provisional).
| Table 1: Apprenticeship starts by quarter, 2004-05 to 2008-09 (provisional) | ||||
| 2004-05 | ||||
| Age | Quarter 1 (final) | Quarter 2 (final) | Quarter 3 (final) | Quarter 4 (final) |
| 2005-06 | ||||
| Age | Quarter 1 (final) | Quarter 2 (final) | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 (final) |
| 2006-07 | ||||
| Age | Quarter 1 (final) | Quarter 2 (final) | Quarter 3 (final) | Quarter 4(final) |
| 2007-08 | ||||
| Age | Quarter 1 (final) | Quarter 2 (final) | Quarter 3 (final) | Quarter 4 (final) |
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