Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time limit imposed for completing conditional elements of youth conditional cautions was in each reporting year since 2010.

Data on whether an authorised person or the relevant prosecutor issued a Youth Conditional Caution (YCC) is not held centrally by the Government.

Conditions must be completed within a 12-week period. Data on the time limits applied to YCCs is not readily available – to extract and quality assure the data would incur a disproportionate cost to the department.

If the offender does not complete their conditions within a reasonable time period, the offender can be prosecuted for the original offence. Data about rates of compliance with YCCs is not held centrally by the Government.