§ MR. BOTTOMLEY (Hackney, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he will grant a Return showing the number of charges of stealing from shops which came before the police courts during the year 1907, with the description given in each case of the occupation or social position of the person charged, together with the result of the proceedings.
§ MR. GLADSTONETo collect the information necessary for this Return would involve a vast amount of labour on the part of the police and justices' clerks throughout the country; and the value of the information does not appear to me to be sufficient to justify this.