MR. JOSEPH A. PEASEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he could state how many prisoners in the local prisons and convict establishments of the United Kingdom have received corporal punishment on more than one occasion during the past six years; and if there are any who have received such punishment on more than two occasions during the same period?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYThe Governors of prisons have been requested to supply this information, but it will be impossible to answer the Question before the holidays.