HC Deb 05 June 2000 vol 351 cc158-9W
Mr. Fraser

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made in reducing the time taken between arrest and sentence for persistent young offenders. [124516]

Mr. Charles Clarke

I would refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, Home Office, to the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) on 12 May 2000,Official Report, column 523W.