Young Offenders

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what arrangements have been made to house offenders under the age of 21 years following the transfer of prisoners from Barlinnie prison in Glasgow to Glenochil young offenders' institute and other young offenders' institutions.

I refer to my reply of 12 May to my hon. Friend the Member for Moray (Mr. Pollock).In order to reduce pressure of overcrowding at Barlinnie prison and other local prisons, Noranside young offenders institution was converted to use as an adult open prison on 13 April and two halls of Glenochil young offenders institution have been used for adult prisoners since 4 March and 6 April, respectively. A group of 40 inmates from Glenochil young offenders institution who had been presenting management problems were transferred to B hall, Dumfries prison, on 15 April, where they are being kept out of association with adult inmates.Plans to complete the transfer of remaining under-21 inmates in Glenochil YOI to Dumfries prison and Greenock prison are now being drawn up (together with plans for transfer of adult inmates from Dumfries and

Expenditure within the Secretary of State's responsibility in real terms (1987–88 base year)¹
£ million
	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	²1987–88
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	160	209	224	200	187	193	205	216	196	186
Industry, Energy, Trade and Employment	170	173	176	166	195	189	230	310	357	257
Other services:
Tourism	12	12	12	12	14	13	15	14	13	13
Transport	608	560	567	596	595	584	570	574	604	601
Housing	1,172	1,269	1,138	953	850	849	745	664	661	696
Other Environmental Services	630	681	643	620	615	616	601	586	641	610
Law, Order and Protective Services	392	423	447	475	494	529	551	543	587	625
Education	1,970	1,960	2,020	2,064	2,024	2,032	1,990	1,901	2,032	1,956
Arts and Libraries	69	64	80	82	78	76	78	81	83	82
Health and Social Work	2,073	2,131	2,270	2,347	2,364	2,411	2,477	2,473	2,556	2,605
Other Public Services	109	104	108	106	96	114	114	112	116	118
Local Authority Current Expenditure not allocated to services	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	124
Total Other Services	7,036	7,244	7,284	7,255	7,132	7,225	7,141	6,948	7,295	7,430
Nationalised Industries External Financing	133	244	159	126	197	328	427	249	250	87
Total Expenditure within the Secretary of State's responsibility	7,498	7,868	7,844	7,747	7,711	7,936	8,003	7,723	8,099	7,960
¹The figures are the cash figures taken from the 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987 editions of "Public Expenditure: A Commentary on The Scot and Programme" adjusted for general inflation as measured by the GDP deflator at market prices.
²The figures for 1987–88 are planned provision. Those for 1986–87 are based on provisional outturn figures, and those for earlier year are based on actual outturn.

Note: The individual figures for services may not sum to the totals due to roundings.

Volume 116: debated on Wednesday 13 May 1987