To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of spaces available in each juvenile remand home and other secure accommodation together with the number of vacancies currently available.

Local authority social services departments provide a range of facilities and services, both residential and non-residential, which may be used by juveniles remanded to their care. This includes a national network of approved secure accommodation to which all local authorities have access.The number of places available in approved local authority secure units in England on 30 June 1990 was 294. Such accommodation is, however, available for children in care generally, some of whom will be alleged juvenile offenders. Details of the number of places provided in each secure unit are in the following table.Occupancy figures are collected annually. Provisional figures for the year ending 31 March 1989 indicate that there were 282 approved secure places on that date, of which 224 were occupied (an occupancy rate of 79.4 per cent.). This figure is similar to the year-end occupancy rates of previous years.Information relating to the provision of secure accommodation in Wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.