§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) boys and (b) girls have been sentenced to a detention and training order broken down by (i) sentencing court area, (ii) offence and (iii) type of accommodation they were placed in; and if he will make a statement. [125341]
§ Mr. Boateng[holding answer 12 July 2000]: The detention and training order was implemented on 1 April 2000. Information provided by the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales indicates that between 1 April and 30 June 2000, 1,475 detention and training orders were made, 1,383 against boys and 92 against girls. There were 1,234 boys placed in Prison Service accommodation, 109 in secure training centres and 40 in local authority secure units. There were 61 girls in Prison Service accommodation and 31 in local authority secure units.
The available information on sentencing court area and offence is set out in the tables.
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Detention and training order: 1 April to 30 June 2000 Sentencing court Male Female Acton 4 0 Aldridge and Brownhills 1 0 Ashby-de-la-Zouch 1 0 Aylesbury Crown Court 8 0 Barking 5 0 Barnet 1 0 Barnsley 4 0 Barnstaple and South Molton 1 0 Barrow-in-Furness Crown Court 4 0 Basildon 7 0 Bath and Wansdyke 0 1 Batley and Dewsbury 2 0 Bedford 4 1 Bexley 3 0 Birmingham 40 0 Birmingham Crown Court 10 1 Blackburn, Darwen and Ribble 1 0 Blackfriars Crown Court 0 2 Blackpool and Fylde 2 0 Bodmin 2 0 Bolton Crown Court 4 1 Bolton 12 0 Bournemouth and Christchurch 1 0 Bournemouth Crown Court 4 0 Bradford Crown Court 4 0 Bradford 9 0 Brent 3 1 Brentford 1 0 Brighton and Hove 2 0 Bristol Crown Court 2 0 Bristol 6 1 Bromley 2 0 Bromsgrove and Redditch 1 0 Burnley Crown Court 2 0 Burton-upon-Trent 2 0 Bury 2 1 Bury St. Edmunds Crown Court 1 0 Calderdale 5 0 Camberwell Green 10 0 Cambridge 3 0 Cannock 3 0 Canterbury and St. Augustine 3 0 Canterbury Crown Court 1 0 Cardiff 11 3 Cardiff Crown Court 16 1 Carlisle 4 1
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Detention and training order: 1 April to 30 June 2000 Sentencing court Male Female Central Buckingham 1 0 Central Criminal Court 6 0 Channel 1 0 Chelmsford Crown Court 4 1 Chester 1 0 Chester Crown Court 6 0 Chesterfield 4 0 Chester-le-Street 3 0 Chichester 2 0 Chichester and District 1 0 City of London 3 0 Corby 1 0 Coventry Crown Court 1 0 Coventry 11 2 Crawley 3 0 Croydon 7 0 Croydon Crown Court 2 0 Cynon Valley 1 0 Dacorum 4 0 Darlington Crown Court 5 0 Denbighshire 4 1 Derby and South Derbyshire 11 0 Derby Crown Court 11 3 Doncaster Crown Court 1 0 Doncaster 18 0 Dudley 9 0 Durham Crown Court 2 0 Durham 6 0 East Berkshire 3 0 East Derbyshire 1 1 East Hertfordshire 1 0 Eastbourne and Hailsham 1 1 Ellesmere Port and Neston 1 0 Enfield 1 0 Exeter and Wonford 2 2 Faversham and Sittingbourne 1 1 Flintshire 4 0 Furness 2 0 Gateshead 3 0 Gloucester Crown Court 2 0 Gloucester 9 0 Grantham 2 1 Great Yarmouth 2 0 Grimsby and Cleethorpes 7 0 Guildford Crown Court 1 1 Haringey 4 2 Harrow 4 0 Harrow Crown Court 3 0 Hartlepool 2 0 Harwich 0 1 Hastings and Rother 2 0 Haverfordwest Crown Court 1 0 Haverhill and Sudbury 1 0 Havering 1 0 Hereford Crown Court 3 0 Herefordshire 2 0 High Peak 3 0 Houghton le Spring 4 0 Hounslow 1 0 Huddersfield 6 0 Huntingdon 1 0 Hyndburn 5 0 Inner London Sessions House 24 5 Ipswich 4 0 Isle of Wight 5 0 Isleworth Crown Court 3 3 Keighley 3 0 Kendal and Lonsdale 3 0 Kettering 4 0 Kingston upon Hull 14 0 Kingston upon Thames 2 0 Kingston upon Thames Crown Court 3 1 Knowsley 13 0 Lancaster 1 0 Leeds Crown Court 15 1 Leeds 18 0 Leicester Crown Court 8 0
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Detention and training order: 1 April to 30 June 2000 Sentencing court Male Female Leicester 20 0 Lewes Crown Court 3 0 Lincoln Crown Court 1 0 Lincoln 4 0 Liverpool 18 1 Liverpool Crown Court 11 0 Loughborough 1 0 Lower Rhymney Valley 2 0 Luton 10 0 Luton Crown Court 1 0 Macclesfield 1 0 Maidstone Crown Court 3 0 Maldon and Witham 1 0 Manchester (Crown Square) Crown Court 12 0 Manchester (Minshull Street) Crown Court 3 0 Manchester 13 2 Mansfield 11 2 Medway 3 0 Merthyr Tydfil 4 1 Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court 3 0 Mid Kent 2 0 Mid Warwickshire 2 0 Mid North Essex 1 0 Milton Keynes 4 2 Miscellaneous 97 10 Mold Crown Court 2 0 Neath and Port Talbot 2 1 Newark and Southwell 3 0 Newcastle and Ogmore 1 0 Newcastle upon Tyne 8 0 Newcastle upon Tyne Crown Court 3 0 Newcastle-Under-Lyne and Pirehill North 2 0 Newport Crown Court 1 0 Newport 8 0 North Avon 2 0 North East Suffolk 4 1 North East Hampshire 1 0 North Gloucestershire 3 0 North Hertfordshire 1 0 North Lincolnshire 4 0 North Tyneside 6 0 North West Essex 2 0 North West Surrey 1 0 Northallerton and Richmond 1 0 Northampton Crown Court 5 1 Northampton 5 0 Northern Oxfordshire 1 0 Norwich 1 1 Nottingham 20 1 Nottingham Crown Court 14 0 Nuneaton 6 0 Oldham 5 1 Oxford 4 0 Oxford Crown Court 3 0 Peterborough 2 0 Peterborough Crown Court 4 1 Plymouth Crown Court 0 1 Poole 9 0 Portsmouth Crown Court 8 0 Preston 4 1 Preston Crown Court 5 0 Reading 2 0 Redbridge 1 0 Rochdale, Middleton and Heywood 10 0 Rochford and Southend 1 0 Rotherham 12 0 Rugby 3 0 Salford 2 0 Salisbury 3 0 Scarborough 8 1 Sedgefield 7 0 Sedgemoor 2 0 Selby 2 0 Sheffield Crown Court 12 0 Sheffield 9 0 Shrewsbury 4 0 Shrewsbury Crown Court 5 0
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Detention and training order: 1 April to 30 June 2000 Sentencing court Male Female Skegness 1 0 Snaresbrook Crown Court 10 0 Solihull 4 0 South Cheshire 1 1 South East Cornwall 1 0 South East Hampshire 17 2 South East Northumberland 4 0 South Hampshire 9 1 South Sefton 4 0 South Somerset 1 0 South Tyneside 2 1 South West Surrey 1 0 South Western Magistrates Court: Lambeth and Wandsworth Youth Courts 4 0 Southampton Crown Court 3 0 Southampton 12 0 Southend Crown Court 1 0 Southwark Crown Court 1 0 South-West Essex 1 0 St. Albans 5 0 St. Helens 1 0 St. Albans Crown Court 2 0 Stafford Crown Court 3 0 Staffordshire Moorlands 3 0 Stockport 4 0 Stoke-on-Trent 4 3 Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court 3 0 Stourbridge and Halesowen 1 0 Stratford Magistrates Court 12 1 Sunderland 15 1 Sutton 4 0 Sutton Coldfield 15 1 Swansea 1 0 Swansea Crown Court 2 0 Swindon 9 0 Swindon Crown Court 4 0 Tameside 6 0 Tamworth 3 0 Taunton Crown Court 2 0 Teesside and Wear Valley 1 0 Teesside Crown Court 6 0 Teesside 16 0 Telford (Shifnal, Wrekin, Wenlock) 6 0 Thames 8 2 Thanet 9 0 Torbay 1 0 Trafford 6 0 Truro Crown Court 0 1 Truro 0 2 Uxbridge 3 0 Vale of Glamorgan 2 0 Vale Royal 2 0 Wakefield 2 0 Walsall 8 0 Waltham Forest 3 0 Warley 2 0 Warrington 4 0 Warwick Crown Court 3 0 Watford 2 0 Wellingborough 1 0 West Allerdale 4 0 West Berkshire 1 1 West Bromwich 3 0 West Devon 1 0 West Kent 1 0 West London 13 1 West Norfolk 0 1 West Wiltshire 7 0 Weymouth and Portland 1 0 Wigan District 9 0 Wigan (Leigh Division) 1 0 Wimbledon 2 0 Winchester Crown Court 1 0 Wirral 10 1 Wolverhampton Crown Court 3 0 Wolverhampton 7 1 Wood Green Crown Court 7 0
Detention and training order: 1 April to 30 June 2000 Sentencing court Male Female Woodspring 1 0 Worcester Crown Court 9 0 Worksop 1 0 Worthing 2 0 Wrexham Maelor 6 0 Wyre 1 0 Ynys Mon/Anglesey 3 0 York Crown Court 1 0 York 13 1 Total 1,383 92 Note:
It has not been possible in all cases to record which courts passed the DTOs. The miscellaneous figure denotes these cases.
Detention and training order: 1 April to 30 June 2000 Offence type Male Female Arson 50 4 Breach of Statutory Order 168 4 Burglary 410 8 Criminal Damage 6 0 Death or Injury by Reckless Driving 2 0 Drugs 43 8 Fraud and Forgery 12 0 Public Order 119 11 Racially Aggravated 22 0 Robbery 190 9 Sexual 19 0 Theft and Handling 285 23 Vehicle Theft 354 2 Violence against Person 245 45 Other offences not detailed 396 14 Total 2,321 128 Note:
The number of offences is greater than the number of DTOS because more than one offence may be associated with the sentence.
§ Dr. VisTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many children have received a detention and training order, broken down by(a) age, (b) gender and (c) race, since its introduction; [129699]
(2) how many boys and girls aged under 18 years have been sentenced by each court to a detention and training order. [129700]
§ Mr. BoatengThe detention and training order was implemented on 1 April 2000. Information provided by the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales indicates that between 1 April 2000 and 30 June 2000, 1,475 detention and training orders were made, 1,383 against boys and 92 against girls. The available information on age and ethnicity is set out in the tables. Information on sentencing court was contained in the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) today.
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Age 12 years 6 13 years 25 14 years 280 15 years 80 16 years 394 17 years 612 18 years 78 Total 1,475
Ethnicity Asian, Bangladeshi 1 Asian, Indian 2 Asian, Other 12 Asian, Pakistani 22 Black, African 14 Black, Caribbean 53 Black, Other 25 Chinese 1 Mixed, Other 15 Mixed, White and Asian 7 Mixed, White and Black 8 Mixed, White and Black Caribbean 36 Not Available 69 Other Ethnic Group 8 White, British 1,172 White, Irish 16 White, Other 14 Total 1,475