Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of children taken into police custody were detained overnight in each reporting year since 2017.

For the first time, information on the number of children detained in police custody, and whether they were detained overnight, is being collected by the Home Office.

Data have not been received from all forces, but data that have been collected are scheduled for publication on 17 November 2022 in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical publication: Police powers and procedures: Other PACE powers, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2022 - National statistics announcement - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).