Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many under-18 year olds have been starred up in each prison in each of the last three years.

Starring up is the term used to define the early transition process whereby young people under the age of 18 can be moved into the young adult estate prior to their eighteenth birthday. The starring up process can be used for a range of reasons, but past usage has mainly been in relating to the management of disruptive or violent behaviour or transfers to Mother and Baby Units.

In practice, the starring up process is rarely used and then only in exceptional circumstances.

Data in relation to the number of young people who were starred-up into the young adult estate in each of the last three years (by the establishment they were starred-up from) is provided in the table below:

To date, the data for the current year (2017) is: