§ MR. WILLIAM WHITELAWI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether, in veiw of the information supplied by the Fourteenth Report of the Scotch Prison Commissioners in regard to overcrowding in Scotch prisons, he will grant a Return showing the number of prisoners in the 11 largest Scotch prisons for each week, from 1st April, 1891, to 31st March, 1893?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANThe Prison Commissioners, to whom I have referred this question, are unable to discover that the information supplied in their 14th Report indicates any overcrowding in Scottish prisons. Such overcrowding, as already pointed out in the detailed reply to a previous question put to me by the hon. Member, does not exist. If the hon. Member will submit a statement to me of the overcrowding to which he refers I will send it to the Prison Commissioners; but till then a detailed Return which would involve considerable trouble seems uncalled for, and I am not prepared to grant it.