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Written question asked by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 15 January 2003, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 4 February 2003. It was answered by Hilary Benn (Labour) on Tuesday, 4 February 2003 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 7th January, to the honourable Member for East Worthing and Shoreham, Official Report, column 140W, on children in prison, what his Department is doing to establish what offences were categorized as (a) other and (b) not recorded. - Inc table. (Holding answer 20 January 2003).
Answer

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 7 January 2003, Official Report, column 140W, to the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) on children in prison, what his Department is doing to establish what offences were categorized as (a) other and (b) not recorded. [91755] Hilary Benn :[holding answer 20 January 2003]: The offences categorised as `other', for prisoners aged under 18 on 31 October 2002, are shown in the table. For statistical purposes offences are grouped in standard ways for presentation because there are too many offence codes to list them separately and the figures for many offences would be too small for meaningful analysis. For prison statistics the `other' offence group corresponds to the `other' offence group used in crime and court statistics to which have been added offences from the criminal damage and motoring groups because historically these have been small components of the prison population. The number of offences categorised as `not recorded' for the prison population under sentence has declined. From 1990 to 2000 there has been a decrease of 74 per cent. Juveniles in Prison Service establishments by offence type, 31 October 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Other offence type Number of persons Affray 42 Arson 32 Blackmail 2 Breach of Court Order 49 Criminal Damage 46 Drunkenness 1 Immigration Act 1971 5 Driving Under the Influence 9 Kidnapping 6 Other Criminal Offences 40 Other Motoring Offences 108 Perjury, Libel, Pervert Course of Justice 3 Threat, Disorderly Behaviour 13 Violent Disorder 24 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
91755; 399 c247W
Session
2002-03
Subjects
Children Crime Prisons Statistics Young offenders
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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