Question follow-through · 11241
Youth Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of regional disparities in the proportion of diversionary outcomes for children in the youth justice system.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of regional disparities in the proportion of diversionary outcomes for children in the youth justice system.
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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26 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Youth Justice Board’s recent statistical release, ‘The use of diversionary outcomes in England and Wales 2025’, includes the first official assessment of regional variation in youth diversionary outcomes. This confirmed the ‘postcode lottery’ in youth...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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