HC Deb 13 May 1976 vol 911 cc246-7W
Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress he has made in considering alternatives to the imprisonment of school-children.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

No one below the age of 17 may be sentenced to imprisonment. If, as I assume, my hon. Friend is referring to young persons between the ages of 14 and 16 who are remanded in custody to Prison Service establishments, I must ask him to await the Government's reply to the Report of the Social Services and Employment Sub-Committee of the Expenditure Committee on the working of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.