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Miss McIntosh
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents involving juvenile crime there were in ( a) 1997, (b) 2000 and (c) 2002. [104346]
Hilary Benn
The information collected centrally on recorded crime relates solely to offences and does not contain any details of the alleged offender.The available in Formation is contained in the table and relates to juveniles found guilty or cautioned in 1997 and 2000.(2) what the average length was of the detention and training orders given in each month since April 2000. [104063]
Hilary Benn
The information requested is contained in the table.
| Juveniles sentenced to detention and training orders by length of sentence and month, England and Wales, April 2000 to December 2001 | ||
| Month | Number of juveniles sentenced to detention and training orders | Average sentence length imposed (months) |
| 2000 | ||
| April | 454 | 7.8 |
| May | 538 | 8.1 |
| June | 622 | 7.5 |
| July | 572 | 7.3 |
| August | 619 | 7.5 |
| September | 563 | 7.6 |
| October | 581 | 7.4 |
| November | 644 | 7.6 |
| December | 481 | 7.6 |
| Total 2000 (from April) | 5,074 | 7.6 |
| 2001 | ||
| January | 607 | 6.9 |
| February | 629 | 7.3 |
| March | 637 | 7.5 |
| April | 530 | 7.3 |
| May | 657 | 7.2 |
| June | 578 | 7.4 |
| July | 612 | 7.3 |
| August | 616 | 7.2 |
| September | 515 | 7.5 |
| October | 637 | 7.5 |
| November | 644 | 7.6 |
| December | 407 | 7.0 |
| Total 2001 | 7,069 | 7.3 |