To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will assess the effect on (a) safety and (b) child protection of the late arrival of young offenders at HM Young Offender Institution Huntercombe, Oxfordshire. (105848)

[holding answer 28 November 2006]: The Youth Justice Board for England and Wales is aware of the effects of late arrival and is addressing the problem across the young offender institutions. The national reception procedures provide that, where, because of late arrival or for other reasons, a full vulnerability assessment cannot immediately be made, the young person must be managed as vulnerable pending full assessment.