§ Mrs. Renee Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of girls under the age of 18 years who have appeared before magistrates' courts during the last seven years following alleged offences of soliciting.
§ Mr. MellorThe readily available information relates to female offenders aged under 17 and is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables, Volume 1" — under offence classification 166 in tables 1.1(B) and 1.1(C).