§ MR. KENNETH BALFOURI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the transfer of military prisoners to military prisons has been completed; and, if not, can he state the number of soldiers now in convict and local prisons.
§ *MR. AKERS-DOUGLASThe transfer of military prisoners to military prisons, and of the administration of these prisons to the War Office, was completed in the course of last year. Only those soldiers who are sentenced to penal servitude, or who are convicted of criminal offences, are now committed to civil prisons. On December 31st, 1904, there were sixty-six soldiers in convict prisons, and 157 soldiers in local prisons.