§ 15 Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a)(b) 16 and (c) 17-year-old-boys were remanded into custody during (i) 1990, (ii) 1991 and (iii) 1992. [37186]
§ Miss WiddecombeThe available information on the number of 15 to 17-year-old boys received on remand into prison service establishments in England and Wales is given in the tables. The age split requested is not available for 1990–1991. This information is also published in successive volumes of "Prison statistics, England and Wales"—table 3.9 of the 1992 edition (Cm 2581) and table 2.6 for earlier years. Copies of these publications are available from the Library.
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Table 1: Receptions of male remand prisoners, aged 14–20 into Prison Service establishments in England and Wales 1990–1992 Age Total aged under 21 Year 14–16 17–20 19901 1,240 18,517 19,575 19911 1,164 19,077 20,241 1 Only age split available.
Table 2 Age Total aged under 18 Year 15 16 17 1992 377 720 3,755 4,852
§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people aged(a) 12 to 14 and (b) 15 to 16 years were held in custody on remand in (i) local authority accommodation, (ii) prison services accommodation and (iii) any other venue in 1994 and in each of the previous five years. [36261]
§ Miss WiddecombeThe available information on the number of young persons remanded to local authority accommodation in England is published by the Department of Health in "Children accommodated in secure units"—reference A/F 94/21, table 10. This information is presented on a financial year basis with the last report covering the year ending 31 March 1994. The available information on the number of 14 to 16-years-olds received on remand into prison service establishments in England and Wales is given in the table. No age split is available for 1989–1991.
This information is published in "Prison statistics, England and Wales", table 3.9 of 1992 and 1993 editions, Cms 2581 and 2893, copies of which are available in the library. No information is available for young persons held in any other venue.
Receptions of 14, 15 and 16 year old remand prisoners into Prison Service establishments in England and Wales 1989–1994 Age Year 314 15 16 Total 19891 — — — 1,476 19901 — — — 1,243 19911 — — — 1,168 1992 4 377 721 1,102 1993 0 454 907 1,361 19942 0 634 1,103 1,737 1 No age split available. 2 Provisional figures. 3 Following implementation of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 in October 1992, 14 year old boys may not be remanded to Prison Service establishments.