HC Deb 27 March 1900 vol 81 c441
MR. LLOYD MORGAN (Carmarthenshire, W.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state the number of cases in which prisoners have been sentenced to corporal punishment for offences under the Vagrancy Acts during the last five years.

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

The figures are:—1895, 1; 1896, 3; 1897, 1; and 1898, 1. Those for 1899 have not yet been abstracted.