§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will list the number of 14-year-olds given custodial sentences in 1986 by constabulary area; and if he will express these figures also as a percentage of juveniles cautioned or found guilty of an offence in a juvenile court.
§ Mr. John PattenThe information available centrally which may be incomplete, is given in the following table. Data relating to juveniles found guilty at magistrates' courts giving a breakdown by police force area and offence group are published annually in tables S3.2(B) and S3.2(C) of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables, Vol. 3". Similar information about juvenile cautioning is available in tables S3.7(B) and S3.7(C) of this publication, copies of which are in the Library.
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Juveniles found guilty at magistrates' courts or cautioned for indictable offences by police force area England and Wales 1986 Numbers and percentages Police force area Number of males aged 14 given detention centre orders l 3 Number of persons aged 10–16 found guilty at magistrates' courts or cautioned2 (a) as a percentage of(b) (a) (b) (c) Avon and Somerset 5 3,088 0.16 Bedfordshire 4 1,381 0.29 Cambridgeshire 3 1,833 0.16 Cheshire 8 2,507 0.32 Cleveland 10 2,970 0.34 Cumbria 7 1,688 0.41 Derbyshire 12 2,219 0.54 Devon and Cornwall 14 2,446 0.57 Dorset 3 1,332 0.23 Durham 20 2,341 0.85 Essex 4 3,110 0.13 Gloucestershire — 1,188 — Greater Manchester 88 10,801 0.81 Hampshire 5 4,599 0.11 Hertfordshire 4 2,125 0.19 Humberside 7 3,493 0.20 Kent 5 2,669 0.19 Lancashire 24 3,968 0.60 Leicestershire 11 2,366 0.46 Lincolnshire 9 1,841 0.49 London, City of — 40 — Merseyside 26 4,375 0.59 Metropoiitan Police District 53 13,942 0.38 Norfolk 6 1,805 0.33 Northamptonshire 3 1,235 0.24 Northumbria 34 6,285 0.54 North Yorkshire 4 1,794 0.22 Nottinghamshire 12 4,579 0.26 South Yorkshire 19 4,716 0.40 Staffordshire 11 1,876 0.59 Suffolk — 1,545 — Surrey 4 988 0.40 Sussex 7 2,328 0.30 Thames Valley 8 3,834 0.21 Warwickshire — 1,019 — West Mercia 5 2,796 0.18 West Midlands 25 10,755 0.23 West Yorkshire 39 8,351 0.47 Wiltshire 1 1,734 0.06 Dyfed Powys 1 833 0.12 Gwent 3 1,596 0.19 North Wales 10 1,667 0.60 South Wales 18 3,921 0.46 England and Wales 532 139,979 0.38 1 Custodial penalties are not available for females aged 14. 2 The majority of these offenders would have appeared at juvenile courts. 3 Figures are those recorded centrally and are approximate: detailed checking of individual cases would involve disproportionate cost