Justine Greening:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug treatment and testing orders were (a) issued for each reason to and (b) breached by offenders aged (i) 12, (ii) 13, (iii) 14, (iv) 15, (v) 16, (vi) 17, (vii) 18 and (viii) 19 years old in each year since 2002. [323892]
Claire Ward:
I have been asked to reply.
The available information is provided in the following table.
Data for 2009 will be available when Sentencing Statistics 2009 is published later this year.
The Courts Proceeding database does not record information on reasons why these orders have been issued, other than the offence committed.
Due to data quality issues we are unable to provide information on breaches. Work is currently under way to resolve this.
The figures referred to in the response relate to stand alone community sentences only. Requirements similar to those of the stand alone orders which have been given as part of the generic community order are not included. The community order, which was brought in by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 is available for offenders 18 and over and whose offence was committed from April 2005.
The drug treatment and testing order was replaced by the drug rehabilitation requirement of the community order under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, from April 2005, for offenders aged over 18.
Total number of drug treatment and testing orders issued for offenders aged 12 to 19, 2002-08
Age
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
13
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
14
0
(1)1
0
0
0
0
0
15
0
0
0
0
0
(1)1
0
16
20
30
14
11
5
4
1
17
49
38
33
25
7
6
2
18
92
104
142
54
6
3
1
19
182
183
202
108
6
0
0
(1) Drug treatment and testing orders are not available for offenders aged under 16. These records are likely to be data errors, resulting from incorrect recording of age or disposal. Notes:
1. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. 2. This data has been taken from the Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings database. This data is presented on the principal offence basis. Where an offender has been sentenced for more than one offence the principal offence is the one for which the heaviest sentence was imposed. Where the same sentence has been imposed for two or more offences the principal offence is the one for which the statutory maximum is most severe. 3. The figures referred to in the response relate to stand alone community sentences only. Requirements similar to those of the stand alone orders which have been given as part of the generic community order are not included. The Community Order, which was brought in by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 is available for offenders 18 and over and whose offence was committed from April 2005.
Justine Greening:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 15 March 2007, Official Report, column 563W, on young offenders, how many (a) volunteers, (b) (i) full-time and (ii) part-time practitioners, (c) sessional staff, (d) administration staff, (e) managers, (f) student and trainees and (g) others were working for youth offending teams in each London borough in each year since 2002. [323895]
Maria Eagle:
I have been asked to reply.
The Youth Justice Board collects figures on the number and type of staff working at each Youth Offending Team at the beginning of each financial year. The table shows information from 2004-05 as this was the first year in which this data was collected. The figures include vacant posts.
The table shows the figures on (a) volunteers, (b) (i) full-time and (ii) part-time practitioners, (c) sessional staff, (d) administration staff, (e) managers, (f) student and trainees and (g) others working at each Youth Offending Team at the beginning of each financial year.
