§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the Commissioners in Lunacy, in their Report for 1899, state that the sending of criminal lunatics to county or borough asylums, where they of necessity mix on equal terms with the ordinary patients, is felt to be a hardship on the latter, while it often introduces an element of danger, and certainly of discipline, in the asylum; and will he consider the expediency of arranging for the practice to be discontinued.
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolI may refer the hon. Member to an answer which I gave on the 4th of August last to the hon. Member for East Donegal.* A new wing is now about to be added to Broadmoor, but I wish to repeat that in no case will it be possible to entirely relieve county and borough asylums from their statutory obligation to receive criminal lunatics.