§ Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many juveniles aged 15 and 16 years have been remanded(a) in adult prisons and (b) in total in each of the last 10 years; and what has been the average period of their detention. [1681]
§ Beverley HughesData are available only for the years shown in the tables. Table 1 shows provisional information on how many juveniles there were remanded in custody on 30 June from 1995 to 1999 inclusive.
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Table 1 Year Total Aged 15 Aged 16 1995 42 11 31 1996 36 9 27 1997 6 2 4 1998 1 1 1999 2 1 1 2000 0 0 0 20011 0 0 0 1 Data for 31 May Table 2 shows provisional information on how many juveniles in total have been remanded in prison service custody on 30 June in each of those years.
Table 2 Year Total Aged 15 Aged 16 1995 209 54 155 1996 254 71 183 1997 264 75 189 1998 248 79 169 1999 184 43 141 2000 161 50 111 20011 148 39 109 1 Data for 31 May A further 66 15 and 16-year-olds were being held on remand in Local Authority Secure Units at the end of June 2000. At the end of June 2001 this figure had fallen to 50.
Table 3 shows provisional information on the average length of detention in days that juvenile offenders have spent remanded in custody in prison for the last two years.
Table 3 Year Average days spent remanded Year in custody 1999 79 2000 65
§ Mr. George HowarthTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many secure unit places for juvenile offenders there are in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement. [2114]
§ Beverley HughesCurrently there are 128 places in Secure Training Centres and 2,706 in juvenile Young Offender Institutions, and 268 juvenile offenders are placed in Local Authority Secure Units. The Youth Justice Board for England and Wales commissions and purchases places. Over the next four years it plans to provide an additional 400 independent sector Secure Training Centre (STC) places to replace Prison Service accommodation.
§ Mr. George HowarthTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what private sector criminal justice initiatives his Department supports for(a) juvenile offenders and (b) young offenders; and if he will make a statement [2117]
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§ Beverley HughesWe support the appropriate use of private sector skills and expertise in delivering the public sector youth justice objectives. The private sector main contributions are the management of the three Secure Training Centres, and the electronic monitoring of offenders (including juveniles) sentenced to curfew orders with an electronic monitoring requirement.
The voluntary sector also play an important role, providing services and helping with the delivery of a wide range of programmes for juveniles and young offenders.