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Voting Systems
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether he has made a recent assessment of the likely effects of the implementation of a preferential voting system on the number of invalid votes cast in an election. [316318]
Mr. Straw: The Government's "Review of Voting Systems", published in 2008, found that
"there was no conclusive evidence that any one particular voting system is more confusing for the voter, in terms of casting their votes correctly, than any other system".
Young Offenders: Reoffenders
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of (a) juveniles and (b) young adult offenders was reconvicted within two years of release in each year since 1997. [317968]
Maria Eagle: Reoffending data are based on offences committed within one year of an offenders' release from custody. Reoffending data covering time periods longer than one year are not collated.
Data on the reoffending of juveniles and young adults from before 2000 are not available.
The proportion of juveniles that committed a proven offence within one year of leaving custody is shown in table 1.
| Table 1: Reoffending rates of juveniles discharged from custody, 2000, 2002-07 | ||
| Cohort | Number of offenders discharged from custody | Percentage reoffending within one year |
The proportion of young adults that committed a proven offence within one year of leaving custody is shown in table 2.
| Table 2: Reoffending rates of young adults discharged from custody, 2000, 2002-07, by age band | |||
| Age group | Cohort | Number of offenders discharged from custody | Percentage reoffending within one year |
Reoffending data are not available for 2001 due to a problem with archived data on court orders.
Please note that the definition of a proven reoffence differs between adults and juveniles. For adults, any offence within a year of release from custody, that is proven by court conviction within 18 months of release, is counted as a reoffence. For juveniles, an offence proven by court conviction or a caution within the same time period is counted as a reoffence. For these reasons the adult and juvenile reoffending rates are not comparable.
The frequency of reoffending by juveniles given an out of court disposal, commencing a non-custodial court disposal or discharged from custody in England and Wales fell by 23.6 per cent. from 151.4 offences per 100 offenders in 2000 to 115.7 in 2007.
Further information on adult reoffending is available at:
Further information on juvenile reoffending is available at:
In England, the number of offenders aged 10-17 entering the criminal justice system for the first time fell from 94,481 in 2007-08 to 74,033 in 2008-09-a 21.6 per cent. decrease.
Further information on first time entrants is available at:
Youth Justice Board: Finance
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much funding the Youth Justice Board is providing to the Prison Service's Women and Young People Group in 2009-10. [317525]
Maria Eagle: The Youth Justice Board has provided NOMS Service Development Group (formerly Women's and Young People's Group) with £118.180 million of funding to deliver approximately 2,400 custodial places and associated services for all young men aged 15 to 17 and 17-year-old young women during the 2009-10 period. On occasion this may also include 16-year-old young women and 18 to 19-year-old young men and women.
Written Answers to Questions
Monday 22 February 2010
Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many Homebuy providers there are in each region. [316739]
John Healey: The following table shows the number of providers who have been allocated funding for Homebuy schemes within the 2008-11 National Affordable Housing Programme.
| Region | Number of providers |
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been spent on the Rent to HomeBuy scheme in each region on the latest date for which figures are available. [316759]
John Healey: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 9 February 2010, Official Report, columns 866-68W.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the average income of a Rent to HomeBuy (a) tenant and (b) purchaser was in each of the last three years; [316760]
(2) how many homes were rented under the Rent to HomeBuy scheme in each region in each of the last three years; [316762]
(3) how many active tenancies there are under the Rent to HomeBuy scheme in each Government Office region. [316763]
John Healey: Rent to HomeBuy was launched in July 2008. Data on the number of homes rented, active tenancies and the average income of tenants and purchasers are not held centrally.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many Rent to HomeBuy completions there have been in 2009-10; and how many households have purchased a stake in their home under that scheme in 2009-10. [316761]
John Healey: Provisional data from the Homes and Communities Agency show that there were 1,899 Rent to HomeBuy completions up to end September 2009.
Data are not held centrally on the number of purchases under Rent to HomeBuy.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the term Homebuy is monitored as part of (a) his Department's media monitoring and (b) media monitoring undertaken by a private consultancy on behalf of his Department. [316933]
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many officials in his Department administer the Homebuy scheme. [316968]
John Healey: The homebuy scheme is administered by the Homes and Communities Agency on behalf of the Department. There are nine full-time equivalent employees working on low cost home ownership policy, including delivery of the homebuy scheme, within the Department.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many times the eligibility criteria for participation in the Homebuy scheme have changed since the inception of the scheme; and if he will list each such change. [316969]
John Healey: The homebuy scheme was introduced in 2006. Households with an income of up to £60,000 who were unable to buy a home on the open market without assistance, were eligible to apply for assistance. The basic eligibility criteria has not changed.
From 2006-08 priority for support was given to social tenants, prospective social tenants, key workers in the health, education and community safety sectors in London, the South East and the East of England, and those identified by regional housing boards. Some regional boards set lower income caps for support. From 2008 priority was given, in order, to social tenants, prospective social tenants, key workers in all regions and any other first-time buyers.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which programmes are included in the Homebuy scheme; how much has been allocated to each such programme to date; and how many dwellings have been sold under each such programme to date. [316974]
John Healey: The following products are included in the Homebuy scheme; OpenMarket HomeBuy, NewBuild HomeBuy, Social HomeBuy, HomeBuy Direct, and Rent to HomeBuy.
The allocations and provisional completions for each product are listed in the following tables.
| Allocations | |||
| £ | |||
| 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
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