HC Deb 22 May 1991 vol 191 cc479-80W
Mr. Leighton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions there were in the last 12-month period for which figures are available for contraventions of the child employment law.

Mr. John Patten

In England and Wales in 1989, there were 35 prosecutions for offences against employment of children Acts. Data for 1990 are not yet available. This information is published annually in volume 1 of the "Criminal statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary tables" copies of which are in the Library.