§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons on conviction in Great Britain were sentenced to be flogged in the years 1905, 1906, and 1907, respectively; what were the total numbers of the lashes inflicted in each year, and what was the greatest number of lashes inflicted on an individual in each of these years; and whether he will state the names of the Judges who, in the years 1905, 1906, and 1907, sentenced men to be flogged, and the number of cases in which each of these Judges sentenced prisoners to the punishment of the lash.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe hon. and learned Member will find the information he desires for the years 1905 and 1906 in Returns laid before this House in 1906 and 1907 (No. 217 of 1906, and No. 224 of 1907). Similar information for 1907 is being collected in response to an Address moved on the 7th instant.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that in each of these years the number of flogging sentences was less than at the recent Cardiff Assizes?
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe Return will show.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLBut does not the right hon. Gentleman know it is the fact?
[No Answer was returned.]