§ 90. Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCKasked the Home Secretary the number of boys and girls, previously committed to reformatories or industrial schools, who were charged during 1917 with fresh offences, either on absconding from the schools or when placed out on licence?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe numbers are, for reformatories forty boys and four girls and for industrial schools eighty-one boys and four girls. These figures are subject to correction when the returns have been more fully analysed.
§ 91. Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCKasked the Home Secretary the number of juvenile adults who were sent to prison under sentence or on remand or to await removal to other institutions during 1917?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe number of prisoners between the age of sixteen and twenty-one received into prison on conviction during 1917–18 was 3,332 males and 1,329 females. I have no statistics showing the number of prisoners of this age who were committed to prison on remand or to await removal to other institutions.