Justice written question – answered at on 3 December 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost to his Department was of community sentences for those aged (a) under 18 and (b) over 18-years-old in each of the last four years; and if he will make a statement.
The information is as follows.
(a) Local authorities have a statutory duty to deliver youth justice services through youth offending teams (YOTs). The Ministry of Justice contributes to these costs by funding the Youth Justice Board which makes youth justice grants to YOTs. This contribution represents around a third of YOT costs. The Ministry of Justice's contribution to the youth justice grant over the last four years is:
£ million | |
2012-13 | 101 |
2011-12 | 101 |
2010-11 | 107 |
2009-10 | 109 |
This funding covers all youth justice costs of which the delivery of community sentences is part. YOTs do not record the specific cost of community sentences within their reporting to the Youth Justice Board so this information is not available centrally.
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) spent almost £4 million on Attendance Centres which can be a requirement of a community or suspended sentence order. These costs cover those aged under 18 years and adults.
(b) In 2011-12 the fully apportioned spend through Probation Trust budgets on Community Orders or Suspended Sentence Orders for those aged 18 years and over was £437 million. In addition, NOMS spent £47 million on electronic monitoring of curfew requirements.
This excludes central NOMS overheads and costs to other Government Departments, such as drug, alcohol and mental health treatment.
These data have been supplied by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). 2011-12 is the first year for which the spend through Probation Trust budgets can be broken down to provide a cost for Community Orders or Suspended Sentence Orders.
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