HC Deb 12 March 1953 vol 512 c147W
87. Mr. Dodds

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can yet give the statistics of juvenile crime in 1952 and the comparable figures for 1951.

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

Provisional figures for 1952 show that at all courts in England and Wales 26,212 children under the age of 14 and 18,866 young persons aged 14 and under 17 were found guilty of indictable offences. The comparable figures for 1951 were 28,578 and 18,895.