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Home Office

Answer

Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children have been transferred to HMP and YOI Castington from Feltham YOI in each of the last 12 months; and what their (a) ethnicity, (b) age and (c) home area in each case was. [83835] Hilary Benn: In the last 12 months 28 young people have been transferred from Feltham young offender institution to Castington prison and young offender institution. The breakdown of these figures is as follows: April 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Age Home Area Ethnicity 15 Sutton White English 16 West Sussex Black Caribbean 17 Waltham Forest Black Caribbean 17 Harringey White English 17 Bexley White English 17 Wandsworth White English 17 Lemington Spa White English 18 Essex Pakistani _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total number transferred = 8 July 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Age Home Area Ethnicity 16 Haringey Black Caribbean 17 Kent White English 18 Chingford White English 18 Uxbridge White English 18 Kensington Black African 18 East Sussex White English _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total number transferred = 6 August 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Age Home Area Ethnicity 15 Not available White English 16 Haringey Black Caribbean 17 Crawley White English 18 West Sussex Black African _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total number transferred = 4 October 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Age Home Area Ethnicity 17 Brent Black African 17 Haringey Black African 17 London Black Other 17 Barnet White English 18 Enfield White Irish 18 Southwark Black African 18 Newham Black Caribbean 18 Surrey White English 18 Enfield White English 18 Thameside Other ethnic group _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total number transferred = 10

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

83835; 395 c722-3W;395 c721-2W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Prisoners' transfers Young offenders HMP/YOI Feltham HMYOI Castington

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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