§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in Buckley Hall detention centre, what is the certified normal accommodation, the current population and the highest population in the current year; how many present inmates are medically or mentally unfit; and how many such boys were received in the last period for which figures are available; how many present inmates are receiving remedial education and how many are assessed as requiring it.
§ Mr. MayhewThe certified normal accommodation is 139, the population on 18 November was 137, and this year's highest population was 150. On 18 November 17 inmates were in hospital or excluded from certain activities on the direction of the medical officer; and 80 inmates have been subject to such directions in the current year. Twenty-one inmates were assessed as requiring, and were receiving, remedial education.