§ Earl Russellasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether, in the light of the information on pages 16–17 of the Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, they are now in a position to say what proportion of 16 and 17 year-olds receiving custodial sentences were, at the time of offending, without visible legal means of support. [HL2493]
§ Lord Williams of MostynThere is insufficient information available to say what proportion of 16 and 17 year-old offenders had no legal means of support at the time of offending. The kind of information requested has never been collected on a systematic basis by the Prison Service.