HC Deb 20 January 1969 vol 776 cc49-50W
Mr. Lubbock

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what purpose-built accommodation is available for boys being allocated to Borstal training.

Mr. Callaghan

None at present, but, as I announced in the debate on 14th November, I hope that a start will be made in 1970 on the development of a complex of young offenders' establishments at Glen Parva, near Leicester, which will include a borstal allocation centre.

I am also considering the provision of another purpose-built borstal allocation centre in the South.

Mr. Lubbock

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many boys who were sentenced to Borstal training during 1968 were sent to prisons while being allocated.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

Two thousand eight hundred and ninety-one in England and Wales during the first nine months of the year. Figures for the last quarter are not yet available.

Mr. Lubbock

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the OFICIAL REPORT a table showing the number of boys who spent periods in prison while being allocated to Borstal training during 1968, giving separate figures according to the length of time in prison in each case to the nearest whole week.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

Detailed information for 1968 is not yet available.