§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the(a) budgeted and (b) actual expenditure of each of the non-departmental public bodies sponsored by his Department for each of the last three years, and the (i) budgeted and (ii) projected expenditure for this year and each of the next three years. [121423]
§ Mr. Nick Brown[holding answer 9 May 2000]: The information requested has been placed in the Libraries of the House.
296Wtimeliness of cases dealt with at the Crown Court are not however available separately for adult and youth defendants.
The table shows the average number of days from first listing to case completion at Youth Courts in Metropolitan Police authority areas from June 1997, February 1999, June 1999, October 1999 and February 2000 Time Intervals Surveys. The only survey to cover all Youth Court defendants in 1997 was the June survey, and the most recent results available are from the February 2000 survey. A degree of seasonal variation is believed to affect the figures shown in the table and therefore comparisons over time are best made between figures from surveys which are whole years apart, for example June against June.