Young Offenders: Crime Prevention

Mr. Grieve
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much the Youth Justice Board allocated to preventive programmes in each year since 1999.

Mr. Straw
Information from the Youth Justice Board shows that they allocated the following sums for programmes working to prevent offending and antisocial behaviour by young people.

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|                                                          |£ million|
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|1999-2000                                                 |1        |
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|2000-01                                                   |6        |
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|2001-02                                                   |8        |
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|2002-03                                                   |18       |
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|2003-04                                                   |10       |
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|2004-05                                                   |10       |
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|2005-06                                                   |13       |
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|2006-07                                                   |26       |
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|2007-08                                                   |38       |
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|2008-09                                                   |36       |
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|Note:Figures are all rounded to the nearest million pounds|         |
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These programmes include Youth Inclusion and Support Panels, Youth Inclusion Programmes, Safer Schools Partnerships, Splash Cymru, work to prevent antisocial behaviour (including Individual Support Order interventions) and parenting provision.

The figures do not include funding for the Youth Justice Board programmes for reducing reoffending such as the Intensive Supervision and Surveillance programme and Intensive Fostering.