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Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many males and females aged 17 years or under were sentenced to a period of custody during (a) 1985, (b) 1986 and (c) 1987;
| Persons aged 17 and under received under an immediate custodial sentence into Prison Department establishments: by ethnic origin and sex, 1985–87 | ||||||||
| Males | Females | |||||||
| Ethnic origin | 1985 | 1986 | 11987 | 1985 | 1986 | 11987 | ||
| White | 9,655 | 7,522 | 7,090 | 196 | 158 | 148 | ||
| West Indian/Guyanese, African | 694 | 493 | 422 | 16 | 16 | 6 | ||
| Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi | 162 | 172 | 148 | 2 | — | — | ||
| Chinese, Arab, Mixed origin | 264 | 222 | 207 | 14 | 3 | 6 | ||
| Other, not recorded (including refusals) | 143 | 78 | 36 | 11 | 3 | 1 | ||
| All | 10,918 | 8,487 | 7,903 | 239 | 180 | 161 | ||
| 1 Provisional data. | ||||||||