Young Offenders

HC Deb 11 March 2003 vol 401 cc198-9W

Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people(a) are being (b) have been held in young offender institutions in each of the last five years. [95990]

Hilary Benn

The data requested is given in the table.

Young people—institutions
	June 1998	June 1999	June 2000	June 2001	June 2002
Young offender institutions	5,614	5,170	5,251	5,340	5,518
Juvenile institutions1	1,661	1,641	1,847	2,768	2,991
Total young people in all Prison Service establishments2	11,550	11,293	11,231	11,054	11,610
1 There were no female juvenile institutions prior to 2002.
2 Young people are those under the age of 21. Those under the age of 18 are classified as juveniles, and those aged 18–20 are classified' as young offenders.