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Youth Justice: Costs

Volume 493: debated on Tuesday 2 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the total cost of youth courts was in each of the last three years; and how many trials were carried out in youth courts in each such year; (276748)

(2) what the average cost to the public purse of a youth court trial was in each of the last three years.

The HMCS accounting system reports court costs by court type; Crown, magistrates, combined, and location. It is not currently possible to separately identify and disaggregate youth court related costs. As a result it is not possible to calculate average court costs.

Youth court trials for the year ended 31 March were:

Youth court trials

2008

23,375

2009

19,078

No statistics relating to youth court trials for the year ended 31 March 2007 are available.