Criminal Justice: Secure College

Lord Elystan-Morgan Excerpts

Tuesday 14th July 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Elystan-Morgan (CB)]

The Minister will know that for many years we have been incarcerating far more young people per 100,000 of the population than almost any other country in Europe. Do we still hold that unmeritorious accolade?

[Lord Faulks]

I am afraid that I cannot give the noble Lord the statistics off the top of my head. At the moment we certainly incarcerate something like 85,000 of the overall adult population. As I said, we have reduced the number of young people in prison, and I shall write to the noble Lord with the comparative figure in due course.