HC Deb 25 November 2002 vol 395 c112W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young offenders were successfully prosecuted in(a) April 1997 and (b) April 2002 and what was the average sentence (i) given and (ii) served in (a) England and Wales and (b) North Yorkshire. [81767]

Hilary Benn

The available information, relating to April 1997 and April 2000 is contained in the table.

Information for 2000 is the latest currently available, that for 2001 being published in December and that for 2002 due for publication in the Autumn of 2003.

and Police Forces. For example, all but a handful of local authorities have been awarded Charter Marks for a total of 874 individual services.

Plain English awards are a matter for individual Departments and are not coordinated centrally. There is no central record of these awards maintained within the Cabinet Office.