Young Offenders

Mrs Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much each local authority in the north- east has contributed to the costs of its youth offending services from its Revenue Support Grant in each year since 2000-01. [86658]

Mr Blunt: The following table presents the amount of funding that each youth offending team (YOT) in the north-east reported having received from their local authority in total, whether from the Revenue Support Grant or other funding, including staffing costs, payments in kind and other delegated funds, from 2002-03 to 2009-10. No figures were recorded before 2002-03. Figures for 2010-11 are not yet available and are scheduled for publication in January 2012 as part of the Youth Justice statistics.

YOT 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Darlington

260,564

268,380

403,382

352,054

463,429

486,055

511,646

537,355

Durham

1,772,000

2,005,830

1,987,300

2,053,304

2,068,392

2,158,379

2,229,924

2,270,655

Gateshead

378,000

472,000

522,300

531,000

499,000

499,000

1,253,706

1,302,669

Hartlepool

555,586

540,344

557,753

571,953

666,807

724,614

746,558

643,709

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

749,257

782,540

794,090

603,460

823,170

1,026,270

1,274,120

1,360,520

North Tyneside

421,977

467,689

479,330

535,620

581,932

615,265

526,599

558,468

Northumberland

773,660

844,644

975,115

1,170,680

1,039,649

1,130,200

1,149,610

South Tees

642,712

742,035

591,691

898,230

1,193,975

919,335

628,319

640,574

South Tyneside

670,670

701,317

676,385

960,556

979,105

910,331

885,727

685,727

Stockton-on-Tees

401,367

387,955

457,700

476,726

481,286

521,051

530,447

583,880

Sunderland

1,781,000

1,910,200

2,002,000

1,521,429

1,602,061

1,986,739

2,071,974

2,193,433

Total

8,406,793

9,122,934

9,447,246

9,675,014

10,398,806

10,977,439

11,808,630

10,976,990

Notes : 1. No figure is available for Northumberland for 2009-10. 2. These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time. 3. These figures were not collected prior to 2002-03.

Youth Custody

Robert Flello: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many children aged under 18 years in each age group were held in the secure estate on 30 November (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011. [87439]

Mr Blunt: The following table shows the number of children aged under 18 years by each age held in the secure estate for children and young people at the end of October for (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011.

As the prison population fluctuates from month to month it is appropriate to compare the same months in

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year-on-year comparisons. As data for November 2011 are not yet available, October data for each year of interest are presented.

These data are from the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and refer to secure training centres (STCs), secure children's homes (SCHs), and under 18 young offender institutions (YOIs).

Please note that data for October 2010 and October 2011 are provisional. The final October 2010 figures will be presented in the 2010-11 Youth Justice Statistics publication on 26 January 2012. The final October 2011 figures will be presented in the 2011-12 Youth Justice Statistics publication.

The number of children aged under 18 years by each age held in the secure estate for children and young people at the end of October for (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011
Age October 2009 October 2010 (1) October 2011 (1)

11

0

1

0

12

8

2

2

13

24

19

15

14

96

67

69

15

319

249

260

16

702

574

570

17

1,379

1,083

1,105

Total

2,528

1,995

2,021

(1) These figures are provisional. The final October 2010 figures will be presented in the 2010-11 Youth Justice Statistics publication on 26 January 2012. The final October 2011 figures will be presented in the 2011-12 Youth Justice statistics publication Notes: 1. YJB data referring to secure training centres (STCs), secure children's homes (SCHs), and under 18 young offender institutions (YOIs). 2. As the prison population fluctuates from month to month it is appropriate to compare the same months in year-on-year comparisons. As data for November 2011 are not yet available, October data for each year of interest are presented. 3. Youth custodial data are published on a monthly basis; they are a monthly snapshot of the custodial population (taken on the last Friday of the month or first Friday of the following month depending on which is nearer to the actual month end). For October 2010, the total custody figure was taken from daily data supplied by establishments, with breakdowns scaled to the total. This is a standard calculation performed when there is a large discrepancy between the daily data supplied by the establishments and the central database (indicating that the central database has not yet been fully updated) in order to meet commitments to publish the data on a monthly basis. When data are finalised all figures are taken from the central database. 4. These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time.

Youth Justice Reinvestment Pathfinder Initiative

Mrs Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many expressions of interest he has received from local authorities for involvement in the Youth Justice Reinvestment Pathfinder initiative; [86659]

(2) for what reasons the Youth Justice Board chose to use the number of custody bed nights rather than custodial sentencing rates as the outcome measure for the Youth Justice Reinvestment Pathfinder initiative; [86660]

(3) if he will place in the Library a copy of the record of bed nights used in custody by (a) legal basis for detention and (b) establishment for each local

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authority area in England and Wales between 2005-06 and 2009-10. [86661]

Mr Blunt: The Youth Justice Board’s (YJB) Youth Reinvestment Pathfinder initiative aims to reduce levels of youth custody in England and Wales. The two-year project, which started in October 2011, gives authorities the freedom and flexibility to use the funding to commission and deliver their own responses to reduce levels of youth custody and youth reoffending in their area.

The YJB received 13 formal expressions of interest for involvement in the initiative. These expressions of interest came from a mixture of individual local authorities and consortia of local authorities.

The YJB counts the number of custody bed nights used by a young person for the initiative. The number of custody bed nights was chosen for the pilot as it was felt that it has a stronger relationship with the costs of custody than looking at the custodial sentencing rates. There are two reasons for this:

The custodial sentencing rate does not take into account actual time spent in custody because of variation in sentence length. The bed night indicator (i.e. the number of nights in custody either remand or sentenced that a young person uses during a period) is a more accurate reflection of the number of people in custody over the period of interest and therefore the cost of custody.

It incorporates both the remand population and custodial sentences. Looking at the number of sentences does not reflect the true costs of custody, as a proportion of the secure estate population are held on remand.

A copy of the record of bed nights used in custody by (a) legal basis for detention and (b) sector for each local authority area in England and Wales between 2005-06 and 2009-10 will be deposited in the Library in due course. This will provide sector level rather than establishment information in order to avoid the risk of a young person being identified.

Youth Justice: North-east England

Mrs Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much Youth Justice Board grant funding has been made available for youth offending (a) teams and (b) services in each local authority area in the north-east in each year since 2000-01, by project. [85489]

Mr Blunt: This information is contained in two tables which have been deposited in the Library. The majority of Youth Justice Board funding in the north-east goes directly to youth offending teams. We have also included Youth Justice Board funding to secure children's homes in the region.