§ MR. MACFARLANEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If, as he declines to recommend an alteration of the Law to permit flogging for brutal and aggravated assaults, he will recommend the abolition of flogging in cases of robbery with violence; and whether, in the latter case, the flogging is inflicted in respect of the robbery or of the violence?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTSir, I do not propose to recommend any alteration in the law in this respect at the present moment.