Justice written question – answered at on 13 January 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many young offenders were in custody in England and Wales (a) in December 1996, (b) in December 2009 and (c) on the most recent date for which figures are available.
Figures are provided in the following table and the data have been supplied by the Youth Justice Board (YJB). The YJB started collecting data on the number of young people in custody in England and Wales in April 2000 and it is not possible to provide comparable data from before that date. Data for December 2009 are provisional and will be finalised and published in the 2009-10 Youth Justice statistics. The most recent provisional data available are for October 2010.
The figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and may be subject to change over time.
Number of young people under 18 in custody | |
April 2000 (earliest data available) | 2,610 |
December 2009 | 2,203 |
October 2010 (latest provisional data available) | 1,995 |
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