§ MR. RAWLINSON (Cambridge University)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of persons sentenced to death for murder in England, Wales, and Scotland, respectively, during the past eighteen months; in how many of such cases has application been subsequently made to the Home Office; and in how many of such cases has the death sentence been remitted.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The figures are given below. Those for 1907 include only persons sentenced up to 30th June. The Scottish figures were obtained from the Secretary for Scotland, who advises on the exercise of the prerogative in Scottish cases.
§ legal holidays mentioned in the contract to which Trinidad labourers indentured on the Panama Canal are entitled; and what provision exists for ensuring that such holidays are duly granted.
1381§ (Answered by Mr. Churchill.) At the present I can only refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave to a similar Question on the 25th of July, as I am still unable to give the information asked for. † I understand, however, that my right hon. friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is making inquiries on the subject of the holidays granted to the labourers.