§ Mr. Batisteasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the under 17-year-old population were committed under unruliness certificates in West Yorkshire in each of the last five years; and what was the proportion nationally in each such year.
§ Mr. MellorThe readily available information is given in the following table. It is not possible to identify separately those committed under a certificate of unruliness.
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Population aged 14 and under 17 of Prison Department establishments in West Yorkshire and England and Wales on 30 June: the proportion on remand Percentage of total* 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 West Yorkshire† Untried‡ 13 22 17 10 14 Convicted unsentenced║ 21 21 23 6 3 England and Wales Untried‡ 5 5 4 4 7 Convicted unsentenced║ 10 11 11 3 2 * All prisoners aged under 17 excluding non-criminal prisoners. † Leeds prison, New Hall detention centre, Rudgate prison, Thorp Arch remand centre, Wakefield prison and Wetherby borstal/youth custody centre; juveniles on remand are held in Leeds prison and Thorp Arch remand centre. ‡Juveniles in this category may only be remanded under the unruliness certification procedure. Boys aged 14 could only be so remanded up to 31 March 1981.
║Most juveniles in this category are thought to have been committed to the Crown court for sentence under section 37 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, which does not require the issue of a certificate of unruliness, but it is not possible to identify how many others may have been remanded under the unruliness certification procedure.