Youth Custody: Expenditure

(asked on 7th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on the youth custodial estate (a) in total and (b) on consultants or third party contractors in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 10th December 2020

The information requested for 2015/16 and 2016/17 is available at the following links:

2015/16: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539930/Youth_Justice_Board_Annual_Report_and_Accounts__2015_to_2016.pdf

2016/17: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630201/YJB_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2016-17_Web.pdf

Information for 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20 is provided in the table below and is a subset of data published as part of the annual HMPPS Annual Report and Accounts publication. The budget for the youth estate moved from the Youth Justice Board to the Youth Custody Service in the middle of the 2017/18 financial year. The contracted-out figure is included in the total spend across the youth custodial estate.

Resource DEL 2017/18

Full Year Outturn (£m)

Full Year Budget (£m)

Total

£103

£108

Contracted Out

£52

£52

Resource DEL 2018/19

Full Year Outturn (£m)

Full Year Budget (£m)

Total

£146

£147

Contracted

£76

£77

Resource DEL 2019/20

Full Year Outturn (£m)

Full Year Budget (£m)

Total

£172

£176

Contracted

£77

£79

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