§ MR. H. J. WILSON (Yorkshire, W.R., Holmfirth)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state whether the Return issued on the 26th April, showing the number of prisoners on the 26th day of March, 1906, includes passive resisters; and, if so, how many of such prisoners are so included.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The Return includes all persons imprisoned for non-payment of rates. The number of passive resistors in prison could not be stated separately. As I said in reply to a Question in this House last Tuesday there is no legal distinction between a "passive resister" and an ordinary "rate defaulter."