HC Deb 26 November 1981 vol 13 c438W
23. Miss Joan Lestor

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals have been sentenced to a "short, sharp shock" since the sentence was established.

Mr. Mayhew

As at 16 November, about 2,650 young offenders ordered to be detained in a detention centre had gone to centres operating the tougher regimes pilot project.