HC Deb 26 January 1983 vol 35 cc447-8W
Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many 14 to 16-year-old (a) boys and (b) girls were held in local prison remand centres at the latest available date, by location; and whether they were untried or convicted but unsentenced and awaiting allocation.

Mr. Mellor

The information which can be made available without disproportionate cost is given in the following table:

Untried and convicted unsentenced juveniles and juvenile borstal trainees in prisons and remand centres on 31 October 1982*: by establishment, sex and category of prisoner.
Number†
Establishment Untried Convicted unsentenced Borstal trainees
MALES
Remand centres
Ashford 4 1
Brockhill 10 15
Cardiff 2 2 1
Exeter 1 1
Glen Parva 4 8
Latchmere House 13 30 2
Low Newton 9 16 2
Norwich 2 3 2
Pucklechurch 2 3
Risley 15 17
Thorpe Arch 14 18
Winchester 2 3
Local prisons
Bedford 1 1
Birmingham 4
Leeds 2
Lincoln 1
Manchester 8 20
Oxford 1
Shrewsbury 1 2
TOTAL MALES 86 138 19
FEMALES
Remand centres
Low Newton 1
Risley 1
TOTAL FEMALES 2
* The figures are those recorded centrally and are approximate; detailed checking of individual cases would involve disproportionate cost.
† These trainees may not be awaiting allocation to a borstal.