Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of BAME children held on remand were subsequently found guilty of an offence in each of the last 10 years.

The Bail Act 1976 and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012 provides the framework for courts to remand children to custody.

Court outcomes broken down by type of remand and ethnicity are available from 2011 in the Crown Court and 2013 for the Magistrates’ Court and can be found at the following links under remand:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2020

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2015

Information on ethnicity for the Magistrates’ Courts for 2011 and 2012, however, could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.