§ MR. LUTTRELL (Devonshire, Tavistock)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that in the local prisons in Scotland and Ireland there is no flogging sanctioned; and, if so, whether he would consider the advisability of the regulations in the local prisons in England being so altered as to prohibit this practice.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLAD- STONE,) Leeds, W.I beg to refer my hon. friend to the full Answer which I gave to the hon. Member for North Galway on the 7th May, 1906 †