§ Mr. MalinsTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what is the average time between arrest and disposal for juvenile offenders in(a) juvenile courts and (b) Crown courts. [871]
§ Mr. HoonThe information requested is not recorded for juveniles in the Crown court. Similar information to that required is, however, available for juveniles in the144W Youth court. In 1996, the average time from offence to completion (which may be sentence, committal, dismissal or discontinuance) for defendants in indictable cases in the Youth court was 131 days.