HC Deb 28 March 1988 vol 130 cc273-4W
Mr. Anthony Coombs

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations

Receptions (1) juveniles into prison department establishments in England and Wales: by type of reception 1982–86.
Type of reception 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Untried 1,545 1,510 1,439 1,484 21,570
Percentage of receptions of all ages 3 3 3 3 3
Convicted unsentenced 2,063 961 451 450 2450
Percentage of receptions of all ages 9 5 2 2 3
Sentenced3 7,008 6,615 6,461 5,784 4,277
Percentage of receptions of all ages3 10 9 9 8 6
1 Total receptions cannot be calculated by adding receptions in each category, because there is double counting.
2 Provisional figures.
3 Excluding fine defaulters and non-criminal prisoners.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many 14-year-olds were in prison establishments on the last occasion for which figures are available; what information he has about the institutions in which they were held; how many were on remand; what information he has about the crimes for which those convicted were so convicted; how many previous convictions they had; and what information he has as to their ethnic origins.

have been made to the Government of the Soviet Union about the continued imprisonment in a mental hospital of Vasili Shipilov.

Mr. Mellor

Vasili Shipilov was included on a list of human rights cases which my right hon. and learned Friend handed to Mr. Shevardnadze during his visit to the Soviet Union in February this year.