HC Deb 29 June 1897 vol 50 cc736-7
MR. JOSEPH A. PEASE

I 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 RIDLEY

During this period forty-four prisoners in local prisons and twenty in convict prisons have received corporal punishment twice; six in local prisons and seven in convict prisons have received corporal punishment more than twice.