§ Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what the population of the potential client group for each local authority with youth offending teams has been; how many offences have been recorded since the youth offending teams were set up; what the pro rata offence figures are; what the general, referral and drugs order funding was for 2002–03; and what the pro rata funding allocation for each offender was in that year; [72325]
(2) if he will publish the criteria for the way in which deprivation indices were calculated as part of the formula for funding youth offending teams in England and Wales, indicating differences in calculations made for youth offending teams in (a) England and (b) Wales. [72334]
§ Hilary Benn[holding answer 24 July 2002]: The Youth Justice Board's (YJB) funding is for Youth Offending Teams (Yots) not individual offenders. The payments for general, referral order and drugs work in 2002–03 took into account levels of deprivation (covering employment, income, average of ward scores, ward ranks, extent of deprivation and the local concentration of deprivation) the size of the 10–17 population within each Yot area and its geographical size. The deprivation indices were supplied by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and are used as standard across Government. The formula was approved by the Home Office and the National Assembly for Wales.
Table showing the number of self-inflicted deaths in England and Wales by Prison Service Area* between 01/01/1991 and 19/07/2002 Area Calendar Year Total 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 North East 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 0 4 2 0 5 18 Yorkshire and Humberside 2 4 4 8 5 6 3 11 7 11 3 6 70 East Midlands 1 2 4 1 4 6 4 6 4 5 4 0 41 Lancashire and Cumbria (North West) 3 0 0 3 3 3 9 3 4 3 1 3 35 East Midlands (South) 0 4 3 3 1 2 1 4 4 3 1 26 Manchester, Mersey and Cheshire (North West) 5 2 5 8 1 9 9 8 13 3 4 2 69 Eastern 3 3 2 2 10 3 3 9 6 4 5 1 51 West Midlands 6 3 0 3 4 7 2 4 9 10 5 5 58 Wales 2 0 0 4 1 0 3 7 2 1 6 1 27 South West 3 2 8 4 6 7 4 5 6 4 13 3 65 Thames Valley, Hampshire and Isle of Wight (South East) 6 2 2 6 3 4 6 9 5 9 4 2 58 Kent, Surrey and Sussex (South East) 0 4 3 2 7 4 7 5 4 2 6 4 48 London 6 8 4 11 2 6 4 3 6 12 8 4 74 Women's Prisons and Young Offender Institutions 0 2 1 3 4 1 2 5 4 8 5 3 38 High Security Prisons 5 4 8 3 7 4 8 7 7 2 4 7 66 Juveniles 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 4 Prisoner Escort Custody Service 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 5 0 1 0 9 Total 42 41 47 61 59 64 68 83 91 81 73 46 756 *This table represents Prison Service areas as they currently stand.
Note:
Not all self-inflicted deaths result in a suicide verdict at inquest
6WA copy of the Youth Justice Board's outcome decision document has been placed in the Library. The annexes show the size of the 10–17 population and the individual grants allocations. The YJB's data covers convictions not offences.
For Welsh Yots, the Barnett formula was applied initially to arrive at the overall grant allocation for Wales. Individual allocations were then calculated by applying the YJB's funding formula.
§ Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will meet representatives of the Welsh Assembly Government, local authorities with youth offending teams in England and Wales, and the relevant, police, probation and health service bodies, to develop common criteria for assessing(a) funding needs and (b) the contribution of each partner to the work of the youth offending teams. [72335]
§ Hilary Benn[holding answer 24 July 2002]: The Youth Justice Board issue grants to Youth Offending Teams on the basis of a common funding formula. They first consult Youth Offending Teams (Yots), their statutory partners (including Local Authority Chief Executives) the Home Office and the National Assembly for Wales. But they recognise that the contributions of local statutory partners vary, and plan to put proposals to Ministers on how best to tackle this. There are no plans for such a meeting at present.