HC Deb 14 February 2003 vol 400 cc106-8W
David Davis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of prisoners in(a) Haltemprice and Howden, (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) England and Wales tested positive for drugs in each of the past five years. [97720]

Hilary Benn

The following tables detail the number and proportion of prisoners in the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden, the County of the East Riding of Yorkshire and in England and Wales who tested positive for drugs under the Prison Service random mandatory drug testing programme in each of the past five years.

(2) how many children in the East Riding of Yorkshire (a) were convicted, (b) were in local authority care, (c) received a reprimand, (d) received a final warning and (e) were found guilty, in each year since 1997. [97730]

Hilary Benn

The information contained in the table gives the number of children convicted of all offences, those given cautions, reprimands and final warnings and those in care in Humberside, 1997 to 2001.

The information collected centrally does not enable cases in the Haltemprice and Howden constituency to be identified nor cautions in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Number of children found guilty at all courts for all offences, number given cautions, reprimands and final warnings and the number in care, Humberside 1997 to 2001
1997 1998
Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Total Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Total
East Riding of Yorkshire
Children aged 10–17 found guilty 87 102 83 90 362 105 101 99 97 402
Children aged 0–17 looked after at 31 March1 175 2 2 2 2 215 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a reprimand 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a final warning 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a caution3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Humberside Police Force Area
Children aged 10–17 found guilty 372 374 361 426 1,533 430 417 391 396 1,634
Children aged 0–17 looked after at 31 March1 1,365 2 2 2 2 1,460 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a reprimand 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Children aged 10–17 receiving a final warning 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Children aged 10–17 receiving a caution3 536 447 500 468 1,951 574 568 609 626 2,377

1999 2000
Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Total Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Total
East Riding of Yorkshire
Children aged 10–17 found guilty 107 100 128 138 473 104 107 93 101 405
Children aged 0–17 looked after at 31 March1 220 2 2 2 2 240 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a reprimand 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a final warning 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a caution3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Humberside Police Force Area
Children aged 10–17 found guilty 407 449 507 494 1,857 468 384 428 470 1,750
Children aged 0–17 looked after at 31 March1 1,385 2 2 2 2 1,350 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a reprimand 4 4 4 4 4 4 75 320 291 686
Children aged 10–17 receiving a final warning 4 4 4 4 4 4 24 136 155 315
Children aged 10–17 receiving a caution3 486 507 395 521 1,909 330 519 4 4 849

2001
Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Total
East Riding of Yorkshire
Children aged 10–17 found guilty 143 84 112 93 432
Children aged 0–17 looked after at 31 March1 205 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a reprimand 2 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a final warning 2 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a caution3 2 2 2 2 2
Humberside Police Force Area
Children aged 10–17 found guilty 535 324 477 382 1,718
Children aged 0–17 looked after at 31 March1 1,230 2 2 2 2
Children aged 10–17 receiving a reprimand 354 329 247 186 1,116
Children aged 10–17 receiving a final warning 191 195 129 74 589
Children aged 10–17 receiving a caution3 4 4 4 4 4
1 Looked after by local councils—numbers exclude children looked after under a series of short term placements. (Information supplied by Department of Health—figures rounded to the nearest five).
2 Not applicable.
3 Cautions were replaced by reprimands and final warnings from June 2000.
4 Not available.

Neither is it possible to give the number of crimes committed by juveniles, only the number of juveniles who are found guilty of all offences.

Figures on children looked after by local councils were supplied by the Department of Health.

Statistics for 2002 will be published in the autumn.