Young Offender Institutions

HC Deb 22 January 2004 vol 416 cc1443-4W

Mr. Oaten

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children in(a) Stoke Heath and (b) Onley Young Offender Institutions have been placed in the segregation units of those Institutions since January; and for how long in each case. [144360]

Paul Goggins

Data on the number of children held in segregation at Stoke Heath and Onley Young Offender Institutions from January to November 2003 are shown in the following tables. This has been split to show the number of times the segregation unit was used for(a) less than seven days, (b) for longer than seven days and (c) for longer than 28 days during this period.

Data on Stoke Heath Young Offender Institution in 2003
		Number of Juveniles
Month—2003	Held for less than 7 days	Held for longer than 7 days	Held for longer than 28 days
January	19	7	0
February	17	8	0
March	15	7	0
April	6	13	0
May	9	7	0
June	11	6	0
July	13	8	0
August	8	0	0
September	8	7	0
October	2	18	0
November	0	10	0

Data on Onley Young Offender Institution in 2003
		Number of Juveniles
Month—2003	Held for less than 7 days	Held for longer than 7 days	Held for longer than 28 days
January	10	3	0
February	24	0	0
March	17	0	0
April	13	2	1
May	43	8	0
June	12	8	0
July	21	9	0
August	11	9	0
September	9	12	0
October	28	39	1
November	17	7	0

Mr. Oaten

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements are made to provide juvenile female prisoners with clothing. [144366]

Paul Goggins

All young women under the age of 18 in custody wear their own clothing. However, every young woman received into custody automatically receives items of underwear and nightwear. If a young woman does arrive in custody with insufficient clothing she will be given additional clothing provided by the establishment.