§ MR. QUILTER (Suffolk, S.)asked the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, What is the reason for the delay in the issue of the Return relating to the Prison Department; and, whether the Return will show the number of prisoners employed in mat making in each prison?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. STUART-WORTLEY) (Sheffield, Hallam)There has been no avoidable delay this year in the preparation of the Report of the Prison Commissioners; the Report usually appears at the end of August. When issued it will show, in the same way as the Report last published, the number of prisoners employed at mat-making in each prison. It appears that the actual daily average number of prisoners so employed in the year ending March 31, 1888, was only 1,473.