To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what was the number of juvenile offenders (a) cautioned and (b) found guilty by a court in each year since 1980;(2) what
(a) percentage and (b) number of incidents reported to police in each year since 1980 he estimates were committed by juveniles;
(3) what was the source of figures on juvenile offending referred to in his oral statement on 12 December at column 1068.
Information referred to in my oral statement at column 1097 on 12 December is published in the annual Command Paper (Cm. 1322) criminal statistics, England and Wales 1989, chapter 5, copies of which can be found in the Library.Information on the number of incidents committed by juveniles reported to the police is not collected centrally. the data from "Criminal Statistics 1989" given in the table below relate to the number of juveniles (persons aged 10 to under 17 years) cautioned and found guilty of indictable offences and as a percentage of all persons cautioned and found guilty."Criminal Statistics 1990" will not be published until the spring of 1992.
| Number of juveniles (persons aged 10 to under 17) cautioned and found guilty of indictable offences and as a percentage of all persons cautioned and found guilty 1980–1989 | |||||
| England and Wales | Thousands | ||||
| All persons cautioned and found guilty | Cautioned and found guilty | Juveniles (10 to under 17) | |||
| ( = 100 per cent.) | No. | Per cent. | No. | No. | |
| 1980 | 555·3 | 175·8 | 32 | 85·5 | 90·2 |
| 1981 | 567·3 | 174·3 | 31 | 87·6 | 86·7 |
| 1982 | 585·1 | 174·5 | 30 | 93·0 | 81·8 |
| 1983 | 574·5 | 167·9 | 29 | 94·6 | 73·4 |
| 1984 | 571·3 | 169·2 | 30 | 99·0 | 70·1 |
| 1985 | 587·0 | 175·7 | 30 | 112·5 | 63·1 |
| 1986 | 518·6 | 141·5 | 27 | 93·5 | 48·0 |
| 1987 | 533·8 | 137·6 | 26 | 95·7 | 42·0 |
| 1988 | 524·3 | 119·3 | 23 | 82·9 | 36·5 |
| 1989 | 472·7 | 99·3 | 21 | 72·8 | 26·4 |