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Written question asked by Gloria De Piero (Labour) on Wednesday, 11 July 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 13 July 2012. It was answered by Crispin Blunt (Conservative) on Monday, 16 July 2012 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Young Offenders: Nottinghamshire

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many young adult offenders aged 18 to 20 years from (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire were held in (i) young offender institutions, (ii) local prisons, (iii) women's prisons and (iv) other parts of the secure estate in each month since May 2009.

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Answer

All young offenders serving sentences of DYOI are held in appropriately designated young offender institution (YOI) accommodation within the prison estate. The majority of this accommodation is in dedicated YOIs, although some establishments in the estate have a dual designation (designated both as a prison and a YOI) and hold both adult prisoners and young offenders.

Serving sentences of DYOI are held in appropriately designated young offender institution (YOI) accommodation within the prison estate. The majority of this accommodation is in dedicated YOIs, although some establishments in the estate have a dual designation (designated both as a prison and a YOI) and hold both adult prisoners and young offenders.

The first table as follows shows the number of young adult offenders aged 18 to 20-years-old from (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire on a set day in each month where data are available since May 2009. The second table provides the information for Nottinghamshire which Ashfield is a part of. The data have only been recorded centrally since May 2009 and from September 2010 are available on a bi-monthly basis.

Ashfield
Number
2009
 2010
 2011
 2012
Location
 May
 Sept
 Nov
 Jan
 Mar
 May
 July
 Sept
 Nov
 Jan
 Mar
 May
(a) Male young offender institutions
 5
 12
 13
 7
 10
 7
 5
 10
 10
 9
 2
 2
(b) Male local prisons
 0
 1
 2
 0
 1
 4
 2
 3
 3
 2
 0
 4
(c) Female prisons
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 1
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
(d) Other prisons
 0
 1
 1
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
Nottinghamshire
Number
2009
 2010
 2011
 2012
Location
 May
 Sept
 Nov
 Jan
 Mar
 May
 July
 Sept
 Nov
 Jan
 Mar
 May
(a) Male young offender institutions
 40
 45
 46
 39
 55
 48
 56
 54
 47
 46
 28
 38
(b) Male local prisons
 8
 14
 8
 9
 4
 13
 9
 13
 16
 12
 2
 20
(c) Female prisons
 2
 4
 1
 0
 3
 3
 1
 2
 0
 3
 0
 1
(d) Other prisons
 0
 8
 5
 3
 5
 5
 4
 2
 3
 1
 1
 2

These 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.

Information on offenders' residences is provided by offenders on reception into prison and recorded on a central IT system. Addresses can include a home address, an address to which offenders intend to return on discharge or next of kin address and these figures are provided in the table above.

If no address is given, an offenders committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which they are resident. These figures are also included in the table above. No address has been recorded and no court information is available for around 3% of all offenders, these figures are excluded from the table above.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
117331; 548 c553W
Session
2012-13
Subjects
Nottinghamshire Young offenders Ashfield
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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