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Young Offenders: Custodial Treatment

Volume 463: debated on Monday 10 September 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many places there are for under 18-year-olds in the prison estate; and how many such places are filled. (150914)

[pursuant to the reply, 19 July 2007, Official Report, c. 590W]: Unfortunately, two sets of figures in the table were inadvertently transposed. These were: the figures for places commissioned in secure training centres and places commissioned in secure children’s homes; and those for places occupied in those establishments.

The corrected table is as follows:

Places commissioned, available and occupied in the secure estate for children and young people, 17 July 2007

Young offender institutions

Secure training centres

Secure children’s homes

Places commissioned

2,979

277

235

Places declared unavailable

72

0

0

Places available

2,907

277

235

Occupancy

12,791

261

228

1 Includes 356 over-18 year olds