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Mr. Kilroy-Silk
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many adult males were received into custody per 1,000 found guilty of indictable offences in 1973; how many females; how many boys; and how many girls.
Dr. Summerskill
The following table shows for 1973 the number of persons in England and Wales received into cus- tody after sentence having been found guilty of an indictable offence per 1,000 persons found guilty of such offences:
| Male | Female | ||
| Aged 21 and over | … | 152 | 31 |
| Aged 17–20 | … | 151 | 35 |
| Aged 14–16 | … | 81 | 9 |