HC Deb 10 December 1906 vol 166 cc1527-8
MR. LLOYD MORGAN

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the justices for the county of Dorset have sentenced any prisoner to be birched for the offence of sleeping out since his predecessor wrote on the 12th August, 1905, to the chairman of the quarter sessions, expressing his opinion that birching was not an appropriate punishment for such an offence.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) Since August, 1905, no order for whipping has been made by the Dorset Quarter Sessions in any case under the Vagrancy Act.