§ SIR SAMUEL SCOTT (Marylebone, W.)To ask Mr. Attorney-General, in how many cases, including high court and county court, were orders for committal in respect of non-compliance with orders for monetary payments made during the last ten years; how many of the 82,590 persons said to have 600 suffered imprisonment during the last ten years for non-compliance with orders of the court for monetary payments were so imprisoned in respect of a judgment debt of £2 or under that sum; and how many of the said number were so imprisoned where the judgment debt was in respect of money lent or interest thereon.
(Answered by Sir John Walton.) The Attorney-General much regrets that he has not the information asked for. He has no Department, and is able to Answer those Questions only which fall within his personal knowledge. He has made inquiry upon the subject of the Home Secretary, who states that the information required is not in the possession of his Department, and that he believes that it does not exist.