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Drugs: Children

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many children under 16 in (a) the north-east, (b) Teesside and (c) the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency were arrested for possession of class (i) A drugs, (ii) B drugs and (ii) C drugs in each of the last seven years; (179614)

(2) how many children under 16 were arrested in (a) the North East and (b) Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland constituency for dealing class (i) A drugs, (ii) B drugs and (ii) C drugs in each of the last seven years.

The information requested is not available centrally.

The arrests collection undertaken by the Ministry of Justice provides data on persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences), by age group, gender, ethnicity, and main offence group, i.e. violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery, burglary, drugs offences etc. More detailed data about specific offences do not form part of this collection.