Youth Justice Board: Finance
(asked on 18th May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the real terms change was in grant allocation from his Department to the Youth Justice Board between 2017-18 and 2018-19.
The real terms change in grant-in-aid paid to the Youth Justice Board from Ministry of Justice for the periods between a) 2010-2011 and 2018-2019 and b) 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 is given below.
Period | Real Terms Change £M |
2010-2011 to 2018-2019 | -374 |
2017-2018 to 2018-2019 | -50 |
The reduction reflects the transfer of the budget for the Youth Custody Service from the Youth Justice Board to the HM Prison and Probation Service in September 2017. The real terms change also reflects reductions in costs of custody resulting from reduced numbers of juveniles in custody, reductions in operational costs and other efficiencies made by the Youth Justice Board.
The average number of juveniles in custody reduced from 2,040 in 2010-2011 to 903 in 2017-2018, reduction of 1,136. The data for 2017-2018 is provisional and the data for 2018-2019 is not available yet.