§ MR. PICKERSGILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the fact that the Prison Commissioners have stated that they see no objection to carrying out the recommendation of the Committee on Prisons, that for purposes of prison treatment the age of juvenile offenders should be raised to 17; and, in these circumstances, will he substitute 17 for 16 in the new Draft Prison Rule 105 (1)?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTI think the object which the hon. Member has in view is really provided for by the second paragraph of Rule 105. He will find the whole question discussed, and the reasons for not raising the age unconditionally to 17 stated in the Report of the Prison Commissioners for last year.