§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will give the number of boys and girls sentenced to borstal training in each of the last three years;
709W(2) what is the average length of time served by a boy or girl serving a borstal sentence.
§ Mr. BrittanThe number of males and females aged 14 and under 17 sentenced to borstal training is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" (Table 5(c) of the volume for 1977, Cmnd. 7289). The figures for individual ages within this age group could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Information on the number of males and females of each age received into custody under sentence of borstal training is published annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales" (Table 3.1 of the volume for 1977, Cmnd. 7286), but these figures are on a different counting basis.
§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of boys and girls in the age groups 14 years old, 15 years old and 16 years old, sentenced to borstal training in each of the last three years.
§ Mr. BrittanThe average length of time spent in custody after sentence by those discharged from borstals in England and Wales during 1977 was about 9¼ months for male trainees and about 7¼ months for female trainees.