(1)The Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament—
(a)in every year, a statement of statistical information relating to approved schools, remand homes and attendance centres in England and Wales ;
(b)in the year nineteen hundred and sixty-four and every third subsequent year, a report on the functioning of the approved school system in England and Wales (including supervision after release) and of remand homes and attendance centres in England and Wales, and on the work of the Home Department in relation thereto.
(2)The information to be comprised in any statement laid in pursuance of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section shall include the following particulars, that is to say—
(a)in the case of approved schools, the number of such schools, and the numbers of admissions, releases and recalls during the period covered by the statement;
(b)in the case of remand homes, the number of such homes and the number of admissions during that period ;
(c)in the case of attendance centres, the number of such centres, and the number of orders for attendance at such centres made during that period,
together with such additional information as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate in each case.