Dan Jarvis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2014-03-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the Youth Justice Board’s budget has been spent on research in each year since 2010.

Jeremy Wright

The statutory functions of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) include that of identifying and promoting good practice to prevent and reduce youth crime. In undertaking this function, the YJB works closely with local services, research bodies and academic institutions.

The table below shows the YJB’s central expenditure on research for each full financial year since 2009/10 alongside the proportion of that expenditure against the YJB’s overall expenditure for the year:

No new central research was commissioned in 2012/13 to enable the completion and publication of ongoing research projects. Figures relating to YJB’s research programme expenditure for 2013/14 will be published in the YJB’s Annual Report and Accounts due for publication in July. This and previous reports can be found at: http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/corporate-reports/yjb.

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