§ MR. WEDGWOOD (Newcastle-under-Lyme)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the figures on page 26 of the introduction to the Criminal Statistics for 1906, relating to persons committed to prisons in England and Wales in default of payment of fines, the figures showing an annual average for the years 1903–6, both inclusive, of over 100,000 persons so committed; whether he will say, with regard to the 97,382 persons so committed in 1906, how many of these persons were male and female juvenile adults; how many males and females were so committed in default of payment of a fine of 40s. or less; and how many males and 168 females were thus imprisoned who had not been previously imprisoned.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The figures which are given in my hon. friend's Question are correct, but I am sorry that I cannot obtain the further particulars for which he asks.