Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people under the age of 18 have been convicted under section 141A of the Criminal Justice Act 1998 since that Act's implementation; and what the average length of custodial sentence was received for such convictions.

No juvenile offenders have been sentenced to immediate custody under section 141A of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 in England and Wales since its implementation. Data for 2004 to 2014 is available in the Criminal Justice Statistics outcome by offence data tool available at the below link;

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014

No juveniles were convicted before 2006. Court proceedings data for 2015 is planned for publication in May 2016.