Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, was estimate she has made of the number of BAME children that have been arrested in England in each of the last five years

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of arrests broken down by ethnicity and age group, on an annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin and accompanying tables, the latest of which can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2017

The Open Data Tables accompanying this release show the number of arrests broken down by police force, reason for arrest, ethnicity, age group and gender with a full time series back to 2006/07, which can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654470/arrests-open-data-tables-ppp.ods