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Mr. Kilroy-Silk
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the charges against each of the seven girls and 15 boys held on remand in prisons on 31st March 1975.
Dr. Summerskill
On 31st March 1975 there were in fact 17 not 15 unsentenced boys in prisons in England and Wales. I regret the error in the answer given in reply to a Question by my hon. Friend on 10th April—[Vol. 889, c. 1401–02.]—when the figure for the number of convicted and unsentenced boys in remand centres on 31st March was given as 257 instead of 255.With this correction, the information requested is as follows:
| Principal Offence | Boys | Girls |
| Theft | 1 | 4 |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1 | — |
| Taking a motor vehicle without authority | 6 | — |
| Burglary | 7 | 1 |
| Assault occasioning actual bodily harm | 1 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | — |
| Soliciting | — | 1 |
| Loitering with intent to commit an arrestable offence | — | 1 |