§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average weekly cost of detaining a young person during borstal training and detention centre treatment, respectively.
§ Dr. SummerskillIn England and Wales the estimated weekly cost of maintaining an inmate in a borstal or young prisoners centre in the financial year 1973–74 was £51 and in a detention centre was £45.
§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what 4W was the comparative success, as measured by the rate of reconviction, of detention centres and borstals over each of the past five years.
§ Dr. SummerskillThe information available relates to known reconvictions for standard list offences within two years from the date of discharge from custody and is published in the Annual Report on the work of the Prison Department (Statistical Volume). The following tables give information for those discharged from custody in the years 1966–70. Figures for those discharged in later years are not yet available:
Young men discharged from borstal Year Per cent. not reconvicted 1966 39.0 1967 34.6 1968 34.9 1969 32.5 1970 34.8
Young women discharged from borstal Year Per cent. not reconvicted 1966 65.6 1967 62.1 1968 61.2 1969 61.3 1970 72.6
Young men discharged from detention centres Year Per cent. not reconvicted 1966 45.9 1967 44.9 1968 41.8 1969 41.6 1970 46.4 The only detention centre for young women was closed in March 1969.