Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 April 2001.
The Youth Justice Board has responsibility for commissioning and purchasing places for young people in the juvenile secure estate and has recently announced a £250 million reform plan to improve youth custody arrangements. In the four-year plan, 400 new places will be made available in new secure units for boys and girls sentenced to custody. That will be a substantial addition to the present 130 secure training centre places.