§ Mr. SimpsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many female juveniles at present are kept in adult women prisons.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Mr. Alan Simpson, dated 15 March 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking how many female juveniles at present are kept in adult women prisons.The latest available provisional information is for 31 January 1995. On that date 29 females (14 remand and 15 sentenced) aged under 18 years of age were held in adult female Prison Service establishments (local prisons, closed training prisons or open prisons) in England and Wales.