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