§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children remanded to prison were subsequently(a) found not guilty by the courts and (b) not given a custodial sentence, broken down by age, in each year since 1995. [72049]
§ Mr. Hilary Benn[holding answer 23 July 2002]: Information on remands is collected centrally for the Home Office, but it is not possible to reliably disaggregate the data by age to this level.