HC Deb 16 June 1976 vol 913 cc174-5W
Mr. Robertson

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many children of school age are presently being accommodated in prisons.

Mr. Harry Ewing

On 11th June, 81 inmates were held in Scottish prisons—71 of them in Longriggend Remand Institution—who were either under 16 or whose sixteenth birthdays fell after 1st January 1976. Depending on school leaving dates in their home areas, a few in the latter category would no longer be of school age.

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