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Military Corrective Training Centre: Young People

Volume 479: debated on Monday 1 September 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people under 18 years old have been detained with adults in the Military Correction Training Centre in Colchester in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) age, (b) sex, (c) ethnic origin and (d) disability. (220315)

The number of individuals under 18 years of age who have been detained at the Military Corrective Training Centre in each of the last five years, broken down by sex, is as follows:

Number of detainees

1 April to 31 March each year

Male

Female

Total

2003-04

7

2

9

2004-05

16

1

17

2005-06

3

0

3

2006-07

12

0

12

2007-08

4

1

5

All of these detainees were aged 17, and their ethnic origin was White British; none were disabled.