§ 34 and 35. Mr. Hoosonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many boys and girls, respectively, were given sentences of detention at a detention centre between 1st January, 1963, and 31st December, 1968; and how many of these are known to have committed a crime after their release from the detention centres;
(2) how many boys and girls, respectively, underwent Borstal training between 1st January 1963, and 31st December, 1968; and how many of these are known to have committed crimes after release from Borstal training.
§ Mr. Elystan MorganProvisional returns show that during the years 1963–68 inclusive 39,138 young men and 625 young women were received into detention centres and 26,091 and 891 respectively into borstals in England and Wales. It is not possible, without a disproportionate amount of work, to say how many have subsequently been convicted of further offences.