HC Deb 19 July 1904 vol 138 c416
SIR HOWARD VINCENT

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state how many aliens are now undergoing penal servitude or imprisonment, or are awaiting trial in His Majesty's prisons.

* THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. AKERS-DOUGLA S,) Kent, St. Augustine's

As I stated a few days ago in answer to my hon. friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds† the number of aliens in convict prisons on the 23rd April last was 182, and I had previously stated that the total number of alien prisoners on that date was reported to be 635. It is not possible to give further or later information without calling for a special Report, which it would, I think, be an unreasonable burden upon the prison authorities to demand after such a short interval. †See (4) Debates, cxxxvii., 1207.