§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if, pursuant to the Prime Minister's answer 286W of 19 March, Official Report, column 1036, he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the numbers and proportion of offenders, broken down by age groups;
(2) if, pursuant to the Prime Minister's answer of 19 March, Official Report, column 1036, he will publish in the Official Report the statistical evidence that the peak age of offenders is 15 years.
§ Mr. MellorThis information is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales." (Table 5.21 of chapter 5 of Cm. 10 gives the figures for 1985, figure 5.6 of the same chapter shows that the peak age of offending has varied little since 1965.)