§ Mr. Russell Johnstonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing separately the number of boys and girls in approved schools in Scotland during the last year for which such statistics are available, and the totals of boys and girls in such institutions in 1960 and 1939, showing the percentage of those who have subsequently been convicted of further misdemeanours.
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§ Mr. RossThe numbers of pupils in approved schools in Scotland at the dates shown were:—
30th June, 31st March, 31st March, 1939 1960 1965 Boys … … 1,251 1,187 1,321 Girls … … 307 225 261 Of the pupils released during the year ended 31st March, 1960, 57 per cent. of the boys and 18 per cent. of the girls were convicted of offences (some of them only of a minor or technical nature) in the three years following release. Records of the post-release conduct during the year ended 30th June, 1939 are not now available.