HC Deb 13 March 1900 vol 80 c741
*Mr. LLOYD MORGAN

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there are any cases within the last five years where prisoners have been sentenced to be flogged, and where the Home Secretary has either remitted the flogging or ordered a reduction of the number of lashes; and, if so, whether he will state the number of such cases.

*THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, Blackpool

There was no interference with any of the sentences of flogging in the years 1895, 1896, and 1898, except that in the latter year there was one remission on medical grounds. In 1897 one such sentence was remitted. In 1899 two sentences were remitted altogether; in two other cases where the sentence ordered a second flogging the second flogging was remitted, and in another case where it ordered a third flogging the third flogging was remitted.

MR. LLOYD MORGAN

Were all the remissions of punishment on the ground of ill-health?

*SIR M. WHITE RIDLEY

No, Sir.