§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many 14 to 16-year-old (a) boys and (b) girls were held in local prison remand centres at the latest available date, by location; and whether they were untried or convicted but unsentenced and awaiting allocation.
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§ Mr. MellorThe information which can be made available without disproportionate cost is given in the following table:
Untried and convicted unsentenced juveniles and juvenile borstal trainees in prisons and remand centres on 31 October 1982*: by establishment, sex and category of prisoner. Number† Establishment Untried Convicted unsentenced Borstal trainees MALES Remand centres Ashford 4 1 — Brockhill 10 15 — Cardiff 2 2 1 Exeter — 1 1 Glen Parva 4 8 — Latchmere House 13 30 2 Low Newton 9 16 2 Norwich 2 3 2 Pucklechurch 2 3 — Risley 15 17 — Thorpe Arch 14 18 — Winchester 2 3 — Local prisons Bedford — 1 1 Birmingham — — 4 Leeds — — 2 Lincoln — — 1 Manchester 8 20 — Oxford — — 1 Shrewsbury 1 — 2 TOTAL MALES 86 138 19 FEMALES Remand centres Low Newton — 1 — Risley — 1 — TOTAL FEMALES — 2 — * The figures are those recorded centrally and are approximate; detailed checking of individual cases would involve disproportionate cost. † These trainees may not be awaiting allocation to a borstal.