§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people sentenced to borstal training over the last period of 12 months for which figures are available had (a) attended again whilst on licence or (b) had otherwise already served a borstal sentence.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesThe information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The latest available information is given in Chapter 3 of "Report on the Work of the Prison Department 1976: Statistical Tables", Cmnd 6884. Paragraph 8 gives information on the number who were recalled or returned to borstal in 1976, and table 3.4 gives information on the previous history of those received into borstal in 1976.
§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were sentenced to borstal training over the last period of 12 months for which figures are available; and what was the average length of time served.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesInformation on those received into custody in 1976 sentenced to borstal training is given in Chapter 3 of "Report on the Work of the Prison Department, 1976: Statistical Tables", Cmnd 6884. The distribution of the length of time spent in custody after
612Wand I understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that the available information is as follows:
sentence by those discharged from borstals during 1976 is given in Table 3(b) the average time was nine months.