Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Phillip Lee and Matt Western

Tuesday 31st October 2017 Commons Chamber

[Matt Western (Warwick and Leamington) (Lab)]

T3. What steps are the Department taking to ensure that there is adequate funding for youth justice services in places such as Warwickshire, which has seen significant funding cuts?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Dr Phillip Lee)]

We spend more than £200 million a year on youth justice and, as I outlined earlier, we are spending an additional £64 million on the custodial estate. We are conscious of the difficulties within the custodial estate, but this is about not just the estate, but the community, which is why I have commissioned a report on the value of sport to the criminal justice system, and especially young people, which will be published in the new year.