§ MR. ANDERSONasked the Secretary of State for the Homo Department, If it be the fact that the Scotch Lunacy Act (25 and 26 Vic. c. 54), by section 23, empowers the Governor of Perth Prison to send prisoners who have become insane back to the prison where they were committed, but that this must be "within fourteen days" of the expiry of the sentence; if the Governor of Perth Prison or the Prison Commissioners were entitled to interpret this power as extending to any period subsequent to the expiry of the sentence, in some cases even twenty years after; if the authorities at Broadmoor have legal power to send prisoners to Perth Prison for the purpose of being disposed of as above; and, if he is aware that within a few months back four prisoners under such circumstances have been sent to Glasgow to be supported, though having no claim of settlement there; and, if so, what redress he proposes?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTAn inquiry is being made into this matter by the Lord Advocate, but the information asked for has not yet been received.