Young Offenders: Sentences

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asked Her Majesty's Government:

(i) how many juveniles and young adults respectively were received into custody after receiving detention centre orders between 1st August 1983 and the most recent convenient date; what was the breakdown by length of detention centre order received; and what were the figures for the equivalent period in 1982;

(ii) how many juveniles and young adults respectively were received into custody after receiving youth custody orders between 1st August 1983 and the most recent convenient date; what was the breakdown by length of order received; and what were the figures for the equivalent period in 1982;

(iii) how many juveniles and young adults respectively were serving detention centre orders on the most recent convenient date; and

(iv) how many juveniles and young adults respectively were serving youth custody sentences on the most recent convenient date, and of these how many were in youth custody centres, prisons and remand centres respectively.

We plan to publish shortly a statistical bulletin giving details of the information so far available on the use of the new sentencing structure for young offenders in the first six months after the implementation of the Criminal Justice Act 1982. The latest available information on the number of young offenders serving detention centre orders and sentences of youth custody is given in the following table:

Population of young offenders serving detention centre orders or sentences of youth custody in Prison Department establishments in England and Wales on 30th November 1983: by type of custody, type of establishment and age.
Number (¹)
Type of custody and establishment	Age
	14–16	17–20
Detention centre	530	990
Youth custody:
Youth custody centers	640	5,390
Prisons	30	910
Remand centres	50	230
(1) Rounded estimates

Volume 447: debated on Thursday 9 February 1984