HC Deb 08 May 2001 vol 368 c84W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 5 April 2001,Official Report, column 255W, when he intends to publish the inspection reports of the (a) Bournemouth and Poole and (b) Caernarfon youth offending teams; when inspection will commence on the other youth offending teams in the pilot; and if he will make a statement. [160458]

Mr. Charles Clarke

Two youth offending team inspections have been carried out by multi-disciplinary inspection teams who are considering their reports. They cover Bournemouth and Poole and Carmarthen, to which I assume the hon. Member is referring. The Carmarthen report will be published by the National Assembly for Wales in the summer. Publication arrangements are being made for the Bournemouth and Poole report, but the timing has yet to be decided. Decisions on which further areas to cover will be taken once the Youth Justice Board has completed its consideration of the future conduct of inspection and its own range of independent evaluation and monitoring of youth offending teams.