The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.
Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of (a) boys and (b) girls under the age of 16 years being held in prisons in England and Wales on 11 February; and if he will list the prisons in which these people were held.
Mrs. Rumbold
The latest readily available information about the number of boys under the age of 16 is given in the table. There were no girls under the age of 16 being held in prisons and remand centres on this date.
| Males aged under 16 held in prisons and remand centres in England and Wales on 30 September 1990 by establishment | |
| Establishment | Number of males aged under 16 |
| Remand centres | |
| Brockhill | 7 |
| Cardiff | 2 |
| Exeter | 2 |
Establishment
| Number of males aged under 16
|
| Feltham | 2 |
| Glen Parva | 3 |
| Hindley | 1 |
| Low Newton | 4 |
| — | |
| Total | 21 |
| — | |
Local prisons
| |
| Hull | 3 |
| — | |
| Total | 3 |