Stop and Search: Children

Mr. Holloway
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children have been stopped and searched in each year since 2001; and how many of these procedures have taken place under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Mr. Hanson
[holding answer 8 December 2009]: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Data on stop and search procedures reported to the Home Office do not include the age of persons searched.