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Young Offenders

Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young offenders aged 18 to 20 years were received into prison under sentence or remand in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) ethnic group and (b) sex. [21789]

Fiona Mactaggart: The requested information is in the table, as recorded on the central Prison Service IT system.
Total number of young adult (18 to 20 years old) receptions into prison establishments by sex England and Wales

	Number
2004
Males	17,713
Females	1,401
Total	19,114
2003
Males	18,297
Females	1,607
Total	19,904
2002
Males	19,869
Females	1,784
Total	21,653
2001
Males	20,133
Females	1,701
Total	21,834
2000
Males	20,624
Females	1,599
Total	22,223

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