§ Lord Henderson of Bromptonasked Her Majesty's Government:
What was the number and proportion of remand boys aged 15 and 16 who received certificates of unruliness in each area in any recent convenient period.
The Minister of State, Home Office (Earl Ferrers)The information requested is not recorded centrally. The information available relates to 15 and 16 year-old boys initially received on remand into Prison Service establishments. An unruliness certificate is required for such boys received as untried and, for some of those received as convicted, unsentenced; it is not required for those committed in custody to the Crown Court for sentence under Section 37 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980. The statistics are published annually inPrison Statistics England and Wales. Provisional figures for 1987 will appear in Table 2.7 of the latest report (Cmnd. 547), due to be published on 22nd December. Information by area about the proportion requested is not available centrally.