§ 52. Mr. Woodhouseasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make regulations to raise the minimum age of committal to a borstal institution, with a view to averting any repetition of the circumstances in which a 15-year-old boy was recently detained before sentence in Oxford prison.
§ Mr. CarlisleNo. It would not be appropriate to do so now, in the absence of adequate alternative facilities for dealing with offenders under 17 who are now sent to borstal.