§ Mr. Home Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing the number of prosecutions, convictions, and the average fine imposed for such convictions, for offences under section 7 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 in each of the last 10 years.
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§ Mr. MellorThe information readily available to me, which may be incomplete, is published annually under offence classification 144 in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables", in the issue for 1984 in vol 1, table S1.1 — for proceedings in magistrates' courts—and vol 4, table 4.4(B)—for amounts of fine. Amounts of fine have been published only from 1983.