HC Deb 04 March 1988 vol 128 cc726-7W
Mr. Bermingham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many 14-year-old males and 15-year-old females were sentenced to a period of custody by the courts in England and Wales during each year since 1982.

Mr. John Patten

[holding answer 1 March 1988]: The information held centrally, which may be incomplete, is given in the following table.

Males aged 14 and females aged 15 given custodial sentences1 England and Wales
Sex and age Number
Males aged 14
1982 1,034
1983 919
1984 863
1985 830
1986 578
Females aged 15

Sex and age Number
1982 16
1983 33
1984 32
1985 34
1986 15
1 Detention centre order, borstal training (up to May 1983), youth custody (from May 1983) and detention under section 53 of Children and Young Persons Act 1933.