Youth Justice (Hansard, 15 July 1999)

§ Dr. Cable
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the planned optimum ratio of staff to young offenders in all juvenile secure accommodation as envisaged by the Youth Justice Board in its planned reform of juvenile secure accommodation. [91011]

§ Mr. Boateng
The Youth Justice Board for England and Wales has provided initial advice on the reform of juvenile secure accommodation referred to in my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Mr. Leslie), 8 March 1999,Official Report, columns 28–29. A copy is in the Library. The advice does not set out an optimum ratio of staff to young offenders, but it does reflect the Board's view that secure facilities should have sufficient experienced and qualified staff on duty at any time to provide regimes geared towards preventing offending by children and young people.

§ Dr. Cable
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the designated areas which(a) did not have a youth justice team in place and (b) had not appointed a youth offending team manager as at 30 June. [91080]
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Initial decisions made on applications received for asylum in the United Kingdom^1.2 by type, nationals of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Somalia, May 1999

Number

Somalia

Total decisions of which: 15

Grants of asylum 5

Grants of ELR *

Refusals 5

Grants of ELR under the backlog criteria^3.4 5

Non compliance refusals under backlog criteria³ —

¹ Figures rounded to nearest 5, with '*' =1 or 2

² Excluding dependants

³ Cases decided under pragmatic measures aimed at reducing the pre 1996 asylum backlog

⁴ May include a small number of cases where asylum has been granted

§ Mr. Coleman
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum applications from Afghanistan were processed in each calendar month since January; how many of these were(a) agreed and (b) refused; and if he will make a statement. [90598]

§ Mr. Mike O'Brien
The requested information is given in the table

§ Mr. Boateng
Section 39 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 required local authorities with social services and education responsibilities to establish youth offending teams in partnership with the police, probation service and health authorities. They will replace existing youth justice teams. The Government expect to implement the provisions nationwide in April 2000.
The Youth Justice Board for England and Wales understands that, so far, youth offending team managers have been appointed for 125 of the 171 relevant local authority areas. In each case the manager has already established a team or is in the process of doing so. Individual authorities are given in the table. Further details of the teams are available on the Youth Justice Board's website at www.youth-justice-board.gov.uk.

YOT managers appointed in England and Wales by Government region

London Manager appointed Yes/No

Barking and Dagenham Yes

Barnet Yes

Bexley Yes

Brent Yes

Bromley Yes

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YOT managers appointed in England and Wales by Government region

London Manager appointed Yes/No

Camden Yes

City of London Yes (jointly with Tower Hamlets)

Croydon Yes

Ealing Yes

Enfield Yes

Greenwich Yes

Hackney No

Hammersmith and Fulham Yes

Haringey Yes

Harrow Yes

Havering No

Hillingdon Yes

Hounslow Yes

Islington Yes

Kensington and Chelsea Yes

Kingston-upon-Thames Yes

Lambeth Yes

Lewisham Yes

Merton Yes

Newham No

Redbridge No

Richmond-upon-Thames No

Southwark Yes

Sutton No

Tower Hamlets Yes (jointly with the City of London)

Waltham Forest Yes

Wandsworth Yes

Westminster Yes

South East

Bracknell Forest No

Brighton and Hove Yes

Buckinghamshire Yes

East Sussex Yes

Hampshire Yes (jointly with Southampton, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight)

Isle of Wight Yes (jointly with Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth)

Kent Yes

Medway Yes

Milton Keynes Yes

Oxfordshire Yes

Portsmouth Yes (jointly with Hampshire, Southampton and the Isle of Wight)

Reading Yes (jointly with Wokingham)

Slough Yes

Southampton Yes (jointly with Hampshire, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight)

Surrey Yes

West Berkshire No

West Sussex Yes

Windsor and Maidenhead No

Wokingham Yes (jointly with Reading)

Eastern

Bedfordshire Yes

Cambridgeshire Yes

Essex Yes

Hertfordshire Yes

Luton Yes

Norfolk Yes

Peterborough No

Southend No

Suffolk Yes

Thurrock No

South West

Bath and North East Somerset Yes

Bournemouth Yes (jointly with Poole)

Bristol Yes

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Yes

Devon Yes

Dorset No

Gloucestershire Yes

North Somerset No

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YOT managers appointed in England and Wales by Government region

London Manager appointed Yes/No

Plymouth No

Poole Yes (jointly with Bournemouth)

Somerset Yes

Swindon Yes

South Gloucestershire Yes

Torbay No

Wiltshire Yes

West Midlands

Birmingham Yes

Coventry Yes

Dudley No

Herefordshire Yes (jointly with Worcestershire)

Sandwell Yes

Solihull No

Staffordshire Yes

Stoke-on-Trent Yes

Shropshire Yes (jointly with The Wrekin)

Walsall Yes

Warwickshire Yes

Wolverhampton Yes

Worcestershire Yes (jointly with Herefordshire)

The Wrekin Yes (jointly with Shropshire)

East Midlands

Derby Yes

Derbyshire Yes

Leicester Yes

Leicestershire Yes

Lincolnshire Yes (jointly with North Lincolnshire)

Northamptonshire Yes

Nottingham Yes

Nottinghamshire Yes

Rutland No

Yorkshire and The Humber

Barnsley No

Bradford Yes

Calderdale Yes

Doncaster No

East Riding of Yorkshire Yes

Kingston-upon-Hull Yes

Kirklees No

Leeds No

North Lincolnshire Yes

North East Lincolnshire Yes (jointly with Lincolnshire)

North Yorkshire Yes

Rotherham Yes

Sheffield Yes

Wakefield Yes

York Yes

North West

Blackburn with Darwen Yes

Blackpool Yes

Bolton Yes

Bury Yes

Cheshire Yess

Cumbria Yes

Halton Yes (jointly with Warrington)

Knowsley Yes

Lancashire Yes

Liverpool No

Manchester Yes

Oldham No

Rochdale No

Salford Yes

Sefton Yes

St. Helens Yes

Stockport Yes

Tameside Yes

Trafford Yes

Warrington Yes (jointly with Halton)

Wigan Yes

Wirral Yes

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YOT managers appointed in England and Wales by Government region

London Manager appointed Yes/No

North East

Darlington No

Durham Yes

Gateshead No

Hartlepool Yes

Middlesborough Yes (jointly with Redcar and Cleveland)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Yes

North Tyneside No

Northumberland No

Redcar and Cleveland Yes (jointly with Middlesborough)

South Tyneside Yes

Stockton-on-Tees Yes

Sunderland Yes

Wales

Blaenau Gwent No

Bridgend Yes

Caerphilly No

Cardiff No

Carmarthenshire No

Ceredigion No

Conwy No

Denbighshire No

Flintshire Yes (jointly with Wrexham)

Gwynedd No

Merthyr Tydfil No

Monmouthshire No

Neath Port Talbot Yes

Newport No

Pembrokeshire Yes

Powys No

Rhondda Cynon Taff No

Swansea Yes

Torfaen No

Vale of Glamorgan No

Wrexham Yes (jointly with Flintshire)

Ynys Mon No

Initial decisions made on applications received for asylum in the United Kingdom^1.2 by type, nationals of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Somalia, May 1999
Number
Somalia
Total decisions of which:	15
Grants of asylum	5
Grants of ELR	*
Refusals	5
Grants of ELR under the backlog criteria^3.4	5
Non compliance refusals under backlog criteria³	—
¹ Figures rounded to nearest 5, with '*' =1 or 2
² Excluding dependants
³ Cases decided under pragmatic measures aimed at reducing the pre 1996 asylum backlog
⁴ May include a small number of cases where asylum has been granted

YOT managers appointed in England and Wales by Government region
London	Manager appointed Yes/No
Barking and Dagenham	Yes
Barnet	Yes
Bexley	Yes
Brent	Yes
Bromley	Yes