§ Mr. BerminghamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many 15 and 16-year-old boys in England and Wales were(a) remanded into penal custody and (b) sentenced to custody in 1989 and during the first six months of 1990.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe readily available information is given in the table. Data for 1989 are derived from tables 2.6 and 3.10 of "Prison statistics England and Wales" (Cm. 1221), copies of which are in the Library.
Receptions1 of male juveniles into prison service establishments in England and Wales: by type of reception Type of reception 1989 1 January-30 June 1990 All remand, of which 21,470 2670 Untried 21,382 2630 Convicted unsentenced 2416 2167 Sentenced3 2,131 2738 1Excludes non-criminal prisoners. Some of the persons received in each category of prisoner were also received in another category. 2Provisional figures. 3Includes juveniles aged 14.