Oral Question·Department for Work and Pensions
“What assessment she has made of the adequacy of levels of local housing allowance during the covid-19 outbreak.”
Tabled: 4 May 2020Answered: 11 May 2020
Asked by
Navendu Mishra
Labour — Stockport
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Sir Nicholas Dakin)
The number of children in custody has fallen significantly over the last decade, but those who are detained are now a more complex and violent cohort. Our turnaround programme provides funds that enable youth offending teams to intervene early to address child offending. Only 5% of children who completed such interventions received convictions in the first year of the programme, but we are continuing to take stock of what more can be done.