§ MR. ADDERLEYsaid, he begged to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, why there had been no Report made by the Inspector of Prisons in the home district for five years past; and when any Report, such as the Act requires annually, was likely to be made by that inspector?
SIR, GEORGE GREYsaid, he regretted to say that the Inspector of Prisons in the home district was five annual Reports in arrear, directly contrary to the terms of the Act of Parliament, which required that the Reports should be made annually. For months past he had endeavoured to impress on Captain Williams the necessity of making up those Reports, and, though Captain Williams had given repeated assurances that he would do so, none of the Reports had yet been received. Measures, however, had been taken effectually to prevent the recurrence of such neglect, and to insure regularity in future.