§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young offenders at the latest convenient date were sent to borstal without having had any supervision from the probation service; and what are the comparable figures for the previous 10 years.
§ Mr. BrittanInformation is not available in the form requested. However, of the 5,600 serving sentences of borstal training on 30 April 1980, about 700 are known to have had no previous sentence which would have resulted in a period of pre-or post-custodial supervision, either400W by the probation service or a local authoority social service; information on the previous convictions of about 1,000 of these trainees is not at present available.