§ VISCOUNT NEWPORTsaid, that as the course to be taken by more counties than one depended upon what were the intentions of the Government with respect to Reformatory Establishments, he begged to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it was the intention of Her Majesty's Government to make any increased allowance for the maintenance of juvenile criminals committed to such establishments?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, the question had been brought under his consideration some time ago, and he undertook to arrange with the Treasury what would be considered a fair and reasonable allowance for it to make towards the maintenance of reformatory institutions. In settling the question, however, a difficulty arose in consequence of the different rates of expense gone to by different establishments, and which stood in the way of their arriving at an immediate conclusion. Still, the principle which he thought ought to be acted on was, that the Treasury should appropriate, for the maintenance of the inmates of those institutions the same amount as would have to be expended had 1162 they been sent to prison and maintained there at the public expense.