§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Returns for 1907 of debtors imprisoned by orders of county courts have now been received; what was the total number of debtors imprisoned during last year; and whether, in view of the early inquiry by a Select Committee into the subject of imprisonment for debt, he will publish at once in a separate Paper the detailed Returns of committals for each circuit.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLADSTONE,) Leeds, W.These figures are not yet complete. If the Select Committee which is shortly to be appointed desire to be furnished with them before the annual Return in which they are embodied is ready for publication, I will endeavour to meet their wishes.
§ MR. BYLES (Salford, N.)Does that include imprisonment for non payment of rates?
§ MR. GLADSTONEI cannot say.