Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department and its predecessor spent on preventative measures to tackle youth offending in the last five years. [6417]

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Mr Blunt: The figures in the following table are taken from published Youth Justice Board annual reports show the incurred expenditure on specific prevention programmes for the last five years. This does not include significant investment on prevention from the Home Office and Department for Education, or local investment in prevention programmes:

Incurred expenditure (£ million)

2004-05    8.24

2005-06    10.135

2006-07    23.728

2007-08    32.402

2008-09    36.479

The YJB annual accounts for 2009-10 will be published later this month.