MR. LLOYD MORGAN (Carmarthen, W.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state the number of prisoners sentenced to be flogged who were sent to the sessions to be dealt with under the Vagrancy Act during the year 1903, and the offences they had committed, together with the name of the sessions where such sentences were passed.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) There were four sentences of whipping passed under the Vagrancy Act during the year 1903, one at county quarter sessions and three at borough sessions. The offender in each of these cases was guilty of grossly indecent exposure of his person, and had been repeatedly convicted before of the same offence.