Young Offenders

Mr. Ruffley
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many reparation orders relating to those aged (a) 10 or 11, (b) 12 to 14 and (c) 15 to 17 years old have been (i) given and (ii) breached in each year since 1997.

Dawn Primarolo
The information is as follows:

(i) The following tables show the number of reparation orders that have been given to young people by courts.

The presented data are broken down by financial years and by the following age groups: (a) 10 and 11, (b) 12 to 14 and (c) 15 to 17-years-old.

(ii) The Youth Justice Board does not hold the data on number of breaches in relation to reparation orders. 

Complete data prior to financial year 2000/01 is not held by the YJB. Reparation orders were only introduced in pilot areas from 1998 and nationally from 2000.

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|       |10-11|12-14 |5-17  |Total |
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|2000-01|169  |1,954 |4,166 |6,289 |
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|2001-02|230  |2,875 |5,524 |8,629 |
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|2002-03|60   |1,075 |3,083 |4,218 |
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|2003-04|39   |938   |2,791 |3,768 |
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|2004-05|43   |1,038 |2,554 |3,635 |
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|2005-06|36   |1,201 |2,802 |4,039 |
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|2006-07|36   |1,234 |3,360 |4,630 |
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|2007-08|42   |1,275 |3,691 |5,008 |
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|Total  |655  |11,590|27,971|40,216|
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These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and may be subject to change over time.