§ MR. F. A. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to a sentence, passed by Mr. Denman at the South-western Police Court in September last, on F. D. Summers, of seven days' imprisonment with hard labour for non-compliance with a vaccination order; whether he is aware that F. D. Summers was, contrary to law, subjected to the hard labour regulations while in prison; and, whether he will direct compensation to be made to him for this illegal punishment.
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. H. H. ASQUITH, Fife, E.)I have communicated with the Magistrate and the Prison Commissioners, and am informed by them that Summers was neither sentenced to hard labour nor subjected to hard labour.