§ MR. TOULMIN (Bury, Lancashire)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state the cost of inebriate homes for England and Wales for the last year for which Returns are available, including annual interest charges on capital expenditure, annual charges for maintenance, the amounts contributed by the State, and the amounts contributed by local authorities or private enterprise respectively.
1955 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The cost of certified, inebriate reformatories in England and Wales in 1906 was £55,489. Of this amount the State contributed £27,644, and local authorities £27,845. Details of the expenditure will be found in the inspector's Report. The cost of the State inebriate reformatories, which is borne wholly by the State, is included in the figures relating to prisons given in the Answer to a Question by my hon. friend the Member for the Appleby Division, to-day. Particulars are given on page 104 of the Report of the Prison Commissioners, issued in 1907. Besides the reformatories, a number of inebriate retreats have been established by philanthropic bodies and private persons, but no contribution is made to these institutions from public funds.